Florida school districts have removed other books in effort to comply with state law, but the mounds of books seen in this video from a South Florida middle school library were removed because they were old.
“Just last year,” Miami-Dade Public Schools “had over 14,000 new children, 10,000 of which came from four countries of Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Haiti.”"The books in question were not removed at the direction of the state," said John Sullivan, chief communications and legislative affairs officer for Broward County Public Schools.
Sullivan said that 89% of the books at McNicol were removed because they were more than 15 years old and out of compliance with an agreement the school board made in 2000 to provide each student with equal access to the current curriculum. The average publication year of the books at McNicol was 1997, Sullivan said.Anna Fusco, president of the Broward Teachers Union, told PolitiFact that the school worker who filmed the video was mistaken about the pulled books.
While the books at McNicol aren’t banned, that doesn’t mean censorship-related book removals are not happening in other Florida schools. Recently, a school in Miami-Dade County moved"The Hill We Climb," written by poet Amanda Gorman, from the elementary student section to middle school shelves after one parent complained,Social media posts said a video showed boxes of books that were being banned by the DeSantis administration.
School district and state officials said the video showed books that were being"weeded out" at McNicol Middle School in Hollywood, Florida — a common library practice to ensure material is current. The video made inaccurate claims about why the books were being taken out of the library. We rate this claim False.
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