This is the fifth post in an ongoing series about the continuing saga of age-inappropriate books in the Polk County Public Schools This post is about the challenged book Identical, by Ellen Hopkins. Read Part 5 here: https://robertgoodman.substack.com/p/polk-county-public-school-board-members Excerpt Here As you read this article, keep this question in mind, “Why do we even need to have an argument about taxpayer funds being spent on public school library books about a FATHER RAPING HIS MINOR AGED DAUGHTER, graphic pedophilia and the trauma it causes?” Also important to note, removing this book from a public school is NOT banning the book, it is easily available for purchase from almost any online bookseller.

This is Part 4 of an ongoing series about the continuing saga of age-inappropriate books in Polk County Public Schools. Please read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 if you have not read them yet. Read Part 4 here: https://robertgoodman.substack.com/p/its-not-working-part-4-what-if-content Short Excerpt:  In this post we will discuss why content that is not allowed to be aired on television or YouTube is available to minor children in Polk County Public School libraries, as well as school systems all across the country. For many years, Polk County Public School Board meetings have been livestreamed in full on YouTube, until September 5, 2023.  That meeting was livestreamed, until a mom got up to read a book with VERY graphic sexual content. This book is available in 11 Polk County Public Schools, and as an eBook to children as young as 11 years old. The mom's spoke for 3 minutes, we edited the video as her mouth was blurred for most of the time she spoke. The full video is available on YouTube. Unedited Rumble link here, by clicking, you are verifying you are 18 years of age or older.

This is part 3 of an ongoing series about the continuing saga of age inappropriate books in Polk County Public Schools. Clink the links to see Part 1 and Part 2. Read Part 3 here: https://robertgoodman.substack.com/p/its-not-working-part-3-what-does What IS Book Banning? REAL Book Banning? In this post we'll take a peek into the history of Book Bans. Please see Part 2 to understand why those who call people "Book Banners" are LYING. It is complete PROPAGANDA. And they might not even know that they are spreading a LIE. This post is to help you understand the difference between removing a book from a public school library that contains pornographic, violent, or other content harmful to minors (which is in violation of Florida Statute 847.012, and REAL Book Banning, aka erasing history. "If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree." Michael Critchton. The intention behind BOOK BANNING or BOOK BURNING is to eliminate any remnants of the ideas contained within the book from the annals of history.    

Below is a link to Part 2 of an ongoing series about the continuing saga of age inappropriate books in Polk County Public Schools. Please read Part 1 if you have not read it yet. Read Part 2 here https://robertgoodman.substack.com/p/its-not-working-part-2-the-book-banning Excerpt: No doubt you've heard the term "Book Banners". It is true that throughout history, many dictators banned or burned books. We'll discuss that in Part 3. However, when you hear it in relation to removing a book with graphic sex from a public school library, the term "Book Banning" is a LIE. It is PROPAGANDA. Joseph Goebbels, minister of propaganda for the Nazi German government of the Third Reich, understood the power of repeating falsehoods. Goebbels  asserted “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” This phenomenon, pervasive in contemporary politics, advertising, and social media, is known in cognitive psychology as the “Illusory Truth Effect.” You may have heard a similar quote “Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth”.