So it appears Forsyth County GA has decided to pull a bunch of books in their libraries and move some of the titles to high school libraries. Most of the books are LGBTQ authors and stories, but Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye is one of the ones moved to upper grades. I’m listening to local radio and hearing all this, not sure if it’s made it into other outlets.

Forsyth County GA is famous for driving out every black resident after two white women were supposedly raped and one murdered by black men in two separate incidents back in 1912. It remained an only white county for decades. It’s not the only one but one of the first. Black families were terrorized by the Night Riders until they finally all left, usually after having their homes destroyed and the land stolen from them. So even teaching the history of their own county is problematic for them.

One issue is that quite often, school boards are often not filled with educators, they are often people with no degrees in education. One example, in Forsyth county even,is district one BOE member Wes McCall, he has a degree in”Christian leadership” and another in public administration. Many of these folks have degrees in business, it’s rare to find one with an actual history of teaching or even working in a a school. That’s a big problem IMO.