Regarding the matter of the RSU 1 School Board’s consideration about removing access to a book from the school library, one could well ask, who do we trust to choose books for the library? A trained librarian, or an ed tech? (A clue as to my feelings: if I have a debilitating pain, when I go to my physician’s office, I don’t take off my shirt in the lobby and ask the desk clerk to take a look – I wait to see my actual physician who went to actual medical school and who is certified to practice medicine by the State of Maine.)
Measures are already in place – again, already in place – which allow parents to restrict their children’s access to a given title or author’s books. Alysia Coats does not have either the right or authority to say “this is a topic that does not belong in school.” Full stop. I would hope that the School Board agrees that the earlier decision to allow the book to remain precisely where it is – and where it belongs – stands.
Mike Connelly
Brunswick
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