Matt Krause

Students said the secret bookshelf is the one place they can find books about people like them.

Books would have a rating on their covers in what free speech activists call “a dangerous escalation in the movement to censor public education.”

The day of the educator begins far before they arrive at school and extends long after the final bell.

Many of the 41 challenged books focus on LGBTQ and Black characters. But the Bible was also a challenged book.

A bill to put supportive parents of trans kids in jail failed. Now the Republican governor and attorney general are trying to declare them child abusers themselves.

The push comes as conservative parents around the country fight to ban books about race and LGBTQ identities from schools.

SC Gov. Henry McMaster’s outcry is part of a growing conservative movement to make books on LGBTQ themes and racism a political issue.

“Who I am is a child of God and it influences everything I say and do.”

“There are some bad, evil-related material that we have to be careful of and look at,” one member who suggested they let people “see the books before we burn them.”

The Texas lawmaker said books about gay penguins cause students “psychological distress.”