Schools Violating the Obscenity Law

Anti Book Banning = Pro Porn

Distributing Obscenity to Minors is ILLEGAL

The ATNJ progressive bad apples took a pledge to not “ban books” in lieu of “following the law.” Nice to see their ideologies override what is appropriate for children to go out of their way to violate FEDERAL LAW.

Unfortunately many of these books have been in your school library for YEARS! You have to wonder how schools were getting away with using our tax dollars to purchase and distribute obscene matter to minors. It becomes clear to you realize that schools are hiding behind the exclusion made for “serious literary and artistic value.”

While what is obscene to minors may differ from the standard applied to adults. Harmful materials for minors include any communication consisting of nudity, sex or excretion that

1. appeals to the prurient interest of minors,

2. is patently offensive to prevailing standards in the adult community with respect to what is suitable material for minors,

3. and lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for minors.

Community Standards Moving to Extreme Levels

Progressives vs. normal parents are going to have a hard time agreeing upon “The prevailing standards of the adult community with respect for what is suitable material for minors.” Progressives think that cartoon images of blow—jobs and the gory sexual details about a man raping his 12 year old daughter is completely acceptable for minors; where more conservative folks draw the line at sex-ed diagrams for health class as being acceptable.

Extremists like Murphy and Senators like Zwicker (Zwicker up for re-election by the way) are trying to push the limits of these laws to see how much graphic sexual imagery they can include for minors under the idea that obscenity is needed to be “inclusive” to LGBTQ+ students.

Senator Zwicker’s Bill S3907 seeks to punish libraries or school districts that exclude ANY books from their collection by withholding state funding.

School District’s Definition Obscenity

Fortunately, your school district has a lot of control over what comes into your school library. You can look up your district’s policy and criteria on how books are brought into your school library and hold your school to that written policy. You can also find the policy on how to request a review for inappropriate books that should be considered for removal.

It is important that book standards are written in clear descriptive language (just as descriptive as the sexual content of the books) so that this decision isn’t left up to an individual so that inappropriate books do not enter the school in the first place.

Many school districts have policies that contradict each other. As in the case of North Hunterdon, their policy has a long list of criterion including the rule: "must be appropriate to the level of the user."

However, when a book is challenged, the policy at North Hunterdon the policy oddly states that the materials must not be questioned but integrity of the library or medial personnel.

When these books are challenged, districts librarians who are affiliated with American Library Association (ALA) try to avoid defending age-inappropriate materials and turn the conversation on them, as in the case of the the Roxbury Librarian. This is a tactic that gives sympathy for the person being accused of having poor taste in books rather than focus on the materials that shouldn’t be presented to kids. Librarian Roxana Caivano flipped the conversation and is suing parents for defamation of character, avoiding the issue at hand. The obscene books do not belong in school, it has nothing to do with her odd taste in child reading materials.

Parents may need to amend these policies to take a more logical, non personal approach that defines obscenity and avoid making this personal. Protecting minors is the job of the Board Of Education and administration. It’s not the job of the school protect the reputation of the librarian or media personnel. It shouldn’t even be about that.

Obscene materials to look out for

If an obscene book is in the stack of your school library, it can be assigned as mandatory reading for your student. In West Morris Mendham High School the 12 graders (17/18 year olds) were assigned a comic book with a very clear, up close and personal cartoon image of a young girl munching the bearded clam. A mandatory assignment with graphic incest child rape scenes were read by 9th graders (14/15 year olds) in Washington Township, a Gloucester County High school. In Cherry Hill, naked cartoon pictures were shown to 2nd graders by the Cherry Hill School Nurse.

Everyone needs to question the purpose of showering kids with graphic images of sex for “learning purposes.” It just seems like these education professionals are trying to get away with the extreme case to get one over on the parents, just for grins and giggles. This can only lead down a path that includes more sexual content for minors because, honestly, it can’t get anymore extreme.

We came up with a List of Titles to look out for in your school Library. In addition to books, there are online materials for educators that also have obscene content. The state DOE directs teachers to promote a website Amaze and its YouTube channel to kids as young as NINE(9) to get additional information on sex education or just learn about porn use. You have to ask if your school allows access to this website from your child’s chromebook. you will have to turn off your age restrictions for these videos for you to view on YouTube.

Lastly, it is important for you to vote for BOE candidates that have the same values as you do so that you can ensure that you choose the right adult community members to make appropriate decisions for your children.

Find your candidates at njproject.org and please share so that we can trust the schools again.