On 10/24/22, lead GCISD administrators gave a presentation explaining the "weeding" process for library materials. This included training district librarians on how to implement the new TEA recommended library resources policy EFB(LOCAL). They explained the previous core "weeding" process using the acronym "MUSTIE" and described that the policy implementation added the new "weeding" layer of removing obscenities.
District administrator Dr. Ray explains the library resources "weeding" process. Leaning heavily on the expertise of GCISD librarians, she explains how those individuals have formed teams to complete this process collectively to ensure uniform application of policy.
This "weeding" process is not new--it occurs year round in all libraries to keep collections up to date. Librarians go through sections at a time as they can, allowing all libraries to stay open at all times for maximum student acce
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This novel features very graphic and explicit sex scenes, child sex (ejaculation with semen dripping down her leg), blow jobs (she describes the taste of the semen), vibrator use (describes her painful orgasm), and various other erotica. Needless to say, this novel qualifies as pervasively vulgar.
Repeated scenes of pedophilia between a father and his little girl. A character continuously speaks of his sexual desire for "little girls" and describes this desire as more pure than that for a full grown woman. This book has explicit child abuse and well as graphic sexual and explicit content with children. It was also part of GCISD teaching materials until the 2022 school year.
This autobiography features adult and child molestation and sex. It normalizes pedophilia. The grandmother molests the child while he cries, holding his hands protectively between his legs. She tells her grandson to hold still. Later, the Uncle gropes his niece, then goes to jerk off. The mother tells the girls that sexual assault is a crime of perception. "If you don't think you're hurt, then you aren't" (Ch. 41).
This book features graphic sex scenes with children, rape, forced blow jobs, and child sex. The girl says "no" repeatedly while she cries, but her cries are stifled by his penis in her mouth. In another scene when two boys are together, the one who assumes the role of the female cries uncontrollably until the other boy tells him he should just pretend he is "passed out."
Explicit act of intercourse repeatedly described. She's "breathless" because she's sucking in air while he penetrates her. Bleeding hymen, dripping semen, fear of pregnancy, condom use, etc. "Virginity is a heteronormative, patriarchal construct" (p. 153). Available at GHS.
This book contains explicit sexual activities including sexual assault and battery; prostitution involving minors and adults; pedophilia; explicit violence; and mild profanity. After determining that this book did not reflect community values, it was removed from classroom materials but remains in the libraries.
This book contains sexually explicit and repeated ritual rape scenes, after which "the juice of the Commander runs down my legs" (p. 95). A whorehouse and its female slaves are described: "Women kneeling, sucking penises or guns, women tied up or chained or with dog collars around their necks, women hanging from trees, or upside-down, naked with their legs apart, women being raped, beaten up, killed" (p. 118). GCISD also had the GRAPHIC NOVEL version of this book, but we believed it has been removed.
This book has sexually explicit excerpts, sexual assault, child molestation and abuse, graphic violence, incest, and profanity. "I feel Mama's hand between my legs, moving up my thigh. Her hand stop, she getting ready to pinch me if I move. I just lay still still, keep my eyes close. I can tell Mama's other hand between her legs now 'cause the smell fill room. Mama can't fit into the bathtub no more. Go sleep, go sleep, go to sleep. I tell myself. Maman's hand creepy spider, up my legs, in my pussy…I'm twelve, no I was twelve, when that shit happened," (p. 18).
This book is about doing drugs and having sex. Most of that sex involves multiple drunk or high partners. A painful, explicit, and long rape scene of a virgin by her boyfriend ends in her sobbing, coated in a sticky substance and blood. "Can't rape the willing" he says (p. 401). She gets pregnant from the rape and has permanent physical and emotional scars.
This book contains explicit sexual
activities including sexual assault and child
molestation; violence including self-harm
and suicidal ideations; profanity and
derogatory terms; and drug and alcohol
abuse. "...when Daddy finished, he burrowed his face into Kaeleigh's hair and wept.
Confused at his tears, and at the sticky stuff icing her hands, still Kaeleigh pleaded,
"Don't cry, Daddy. What's the matter? Didn't I love you good enough?" (p. 152).
Authentic to the true story, this GRAPHIC NOVEL features the story of the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. He kills people, has sex or masturbates himself around the corpses, and then mutilates the bodies. "In Dahmer's fantasies, his lovers.... were dead. Dead men. Corpses," (p. 54). "Dahmer was obsessed with the jogger who ran past his house every day. For months, Dahmer watched from the woods or from the house as the jogger ran past. Dahmer fantasized about lying down next to his unconscious body, about fondling him and having 'total control' over him," (p. 58).
Multiple sex scenes with minors and adults. A daughter reflecting on her mother's sex life when she walks in on her mom having sex with a young man. The daughter compares this to her own sexual experience with an older man, saying " …I was a flower and I opened, I softened, and I ripened and warmed. I felt, I thought, like a woman rather than a girl, and as he found his way inside me, I wondered--fleetingly--if this was what sex was like for my mother."
Sexually explicit excerpts, sexual commentary, and excessive profanity. "The moment she put me inside her I came. I mean the exact moment. FUCK, I said, and I curled up around her like a snail, and kept coming about a hundred times, and I said fuckfuckfuckfuck, until she said sssshhhhhh, and pushed me back down onto my back and just lay on top of me, and that was how it happened," (p. 265).
This graphic novel features discussions of oral sex and child sex, discussions of suicide and unwanted teen pregnancy, a graphic miscarriage, and kids watching and commenting on X-rated pornography. This book is available at Cross Timbers Middle School & GHS.
The parent who read this book couldn't find a plot, so she did a tally for colorful words instead.
"F-ck," "cock shit-ass f-ck," "motherf-cker," and variations were used 90+ times. The actual "f-ck" and "n-gger" words combined show up almost 100 times. "Dick" or some form of it, like "suckin' everybody's dick," "dick-head," "f-ck dick shit-ass," etc. were featured 15+ times. This novel also spends a full two pages on "how to eat pussy."
A teenage boy unknowingly has a romantic relationship with a biological male (transgender female). This book contains sexual nudity, sexual activities, and sexual arousal in a child sex scene. The main character describes, in detail, hormone therapy undertaken before finishing puberty to grow breasts as well as her hopes for future surgery to slice and re-form her penis into a vagina. This book is pervasively vulgar, discusses gender modification of a child in detail, and has homophobic slurs. This book is still at CHHS as of 8.31.22.
This is the story of a transgender boy who wants to be a girl. He spends the whole novel trying to convince his "close-minded" Neanderthal dad to give him hormone blockers. He has sleepovers with girls and thinks that he should be using the girls' locker room. He also wants estrogen hormones so he can grow boobs, and directly says that he is not okay with "hair growing around [his] penis, because [he's] not okay with [his] penis."
Here is a review of the purchasing process and requirements for incoming library materials in GCISD.
You're looking at a screenshot of the opening page of Colleyville Heritage High School's library. Both books on the far left and right are inappropriate for minors. This includes "The Handmaid's Tale" and "The Testaments," both by Margaret Atwood. GCISD also had a GRAPHIC NOVEL version of "The Handmaid's Tale." It's too explicit for us to post the pictures on this page.
As of 8.31.22, these are the newly added books to the library. "The Handmaid's Tale" features a ritual rape scene in addition to repeated graphic sex scenes. In "The Testaments," there are graphic scenes of child molestation and child sex.
Why did GCISD allow these books to be recently added? What is their educational value? Do you trust a vendor that is STILL uploading books like these, even after a national outcry from parents?
Critical Race Theory "how-to" book for kids. Includes all of the core tenets of CRT and re-writes history through a racist lens.
Fiction novel describing the transformation of a black girl from a "nerdy student" into a BLM activist.
Graphic fiction novel recounting a boy who is taught to see racism by his own family every day and in every way.
Anti-racism is a core tenet of Critical Race Theory (CRT). Many students will fall prey to the mislabeling of this book's title. CRT pushes a race-based and divisive view of the world. Nothing could be worse for shaming students.
A picture book for elementary school children that helps them to understand the evils of white privilege. Children are prompted to sign a contract with the devil at the end about their privileged status.
Based off of Emmett Till's story, the ghost of a black boy haunts the white daughter of the police officer who killed him, eventually turning that girl against her father. This book features systemic racism (a core CRT principle), unconscious bias, and parent/educator resources for BLM in schools.
A book of poetry written with the intent to inspire kids of middle school age to stay woke and become a new generation of activists. The collection focuses on activism for black and LGBTQ+ individuals, pushing the idea that all oppression is related. It specifically includes poems describing intersectionality (a concept unique to CRT) and white privilege. Characters hold signs for Black Lives Matter.
This book is written to start a conversation with your family. The idea is to help dismantle white supremacy. It was removed from GCISD's libraries after a parent called it out as inappropriate. It actively villainizes white people and calls on children to dismantle their white privilege.
Dad addresses the district's library policies for allowing books into the district, pointing out how any book can be put directly on the shelf by a librarian at any time. He references a CRT "how-to" book called "Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You" (the kids version) that is readily available in GCISD libraries and co-authored by popular culture CRT proponent Ibram X. Kendi. Antiracism is a core tenet of Critical Race Theory.
"The Conscious Kid" is a progressive organization dedicated to promoting healthy racial identity. It donates books to schools around the country. It has an anti-racist children's book fund specifically. Anti-racism is a core tenet of Critical Race Theory.
GCISD staff member thanks The Conscious Kid for its donations to Cannon Elementary school. The red check marks are for titles we could read that are identified as promoting Critical Race Theory through the tenet of anti-racism.
The Booklist Reader, a publication of the American Library Association, recommends Anti-racism titles for all ages. Antiracism is a core tenet of Critical Race Theory.
The Booklist Reader, a publication of the American Library Association, recommends Anti-racism titles for all ages. Antiracism is a core tenet of Critical Race Theory. All books with red checks are (or were) in GCISD's libraries.
The Booklist Reader, a publication of the American Library Association, recommends Anti-racism titles for all ages. Antiracism is a core tenet of Critical Race Theory. All books with red checks are (or were) in GCISD's libraries.
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