Florida Book Banner Claims ARTHUR’S BIRTHDAY Could “Damage Souls”

In Florida’s Clay County School District, the 1989 publication Arthur’s Birthday by Marc Brown is 1 of astatine slightest 8 books blimpish activistic Bruce Friedman has challenged successful the past month, trying to get them removed from schoolhouse libraries. In a November schoolhouse committee meeting, Friedman said helium had compiled a database of 3,600 books helium recovered objectionable and would situation each and each 1 to “overwhelm your awful, atrocious procedures and policies.”

On the publication situation signifier for Arthur’s Birthday, Friedman answered the question “What bash you judge mightiness beryllium the effect of a pupil utilizing this material?” with “Damaged souls.” Later successful the form, helium said that it was not due for immoderate property radical and that determination was thing bully successful the book.

His objection to Arthur’s Birthday was a enactment successful which a quality asks if they volition beryllium playing rotation the vessel astatine Arthur’s day party, though the crippled is not played oregon explained successful the story.

Friedman is the president of the Florida section of the radical “No Left Turn successful Education,” which purports to combat “radical indoctrination successful K-12 education” — and there’s thing much extremist than Arthur.