To the editor:

I find it quite disturbing that the “book banners” by profession are so indignant over an effort by parents to maintain their parental rights.

By all natural and most man-made laws, it’s the parents’ responsibility to raise and instill right from wrong in their prodigy. If one of their children goes astray it is not the teacher, the school board, the library, etc., who are held accountable, it’s the parents. This is why all parents and caregivers have traditionally had a voice on what schools teach and what they read.

Now who are these professional “book banners”?

They are the librarians and library boards who decide what books to stock, the school boards, school superintendents, and principals who approve reading lists; Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers and their approved books lists; the New York state Education Department and the teachers and professors who pick the books from these lists for their class reading lists and effectively ban the countless other books.

It may “take a village to raise a child,” but why do they nullify the responsible party, the parents, for wanting a say as to what our kiddos read?

Daniel Ward

Saranac Lake and

Palestine, Texas