Senate passed it yesterday. It's on JB's desk. Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker has said he supports a House bill that would withhold state funding from any of the state’s 1,600 public or school libraries that remove books from their shelves. It passed in the Illinois Senate on Wednesday, and Pritzker is expected to sign the legislation. Illinois set to become first state to end book bans
As a father to growing (now grown) sons, I didn’t worry too much about what they were reading as long as they WERE reading. One read long dead German philosophers and the other Calvin and Hobbes exclusively. Maybe I should have been a helicopter dad but it all worked out and they still read and it’s something we share with one another. “Hey, what are you reading?”
This is almost as crazy as book banning. There can be legitimate discussions over whether a book is age appropriate.
Bet the kid who read Calvin and Hobbes turned out great. I named my cat Calvin and my Lab Hobbes for obvious reasons if you meet them
Did you read the reddit post about old Calvin saying goodbye to Hobbes? Edit: I went ahead and made a thread for it in the Pub, quality writing.
As somebody who opposes book bans, this is dumb. Just let librarians make the call; preempt any of the moronic "parental rights" laws that allow the dumbest, most racist parent to challenge books; and let people follow their interests/passions.