{"id":3390,"date":"2019-12-04T14:50:10","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T19:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/?page_id=3390"},"modified":"2022-04-21T09:18:24","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T13:18:24","slug":"red-a-crayons-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/red-a-crayons-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books 2021 &#8211; Red: A Crayon&#8217;s Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"\">\n<div class=\"marsha-row mt-4 mb-4 flex flex-wrap -mx-2 lg:-mx-6  justify-start border-0 border-gray-100 first:mt-0\">\n\t\n<p><!-- *  START LEFT COLUMN  *--><div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-3\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\">\n<div class=\"\">\n\n<h2>Links<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"\"><a id=\"current\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2021\/author\/\">2021 Author<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2021\/title\/\">2021 Title<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/\">Banned Books Home<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Cover<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3393\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/files\/2019\/12\/redacrayonsstory.jpg\" alt=\"red a crayons story\" width=\"362\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/files\/2019\/12\/redacrayonsstory.jpg 362w, https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/files\/2019\/12\/redacrayonsstory-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mulibiiidb.marshall.edu\/record=b1813756~S12\">Held at Marshall University (Drinko Juvenile Collection E H178re)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- *** ** END LEFT COLUMN ** ***-->\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p><p><!-- *** ** START RIGHT COLUMN ** **--><div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-9\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\">\n<div class=\"\">\n\n<p><strong>Marshall University does not ban books!  The information is provided to let people know what has been banned\/challenged elsewhere.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>2021<\/h2>\n<p>The Charlottesville (VA) City School Board received a challenge to the school\u2019s unit about \u201chow families are different.\u201d  The challenger asked that the school stop using the term \u201cnon-binary\u201d and remove the picture book about a crayon who\u2014despite his red wrapper\u2014is blue. After internal review, the book, term, and curriculum were all retained.<\/p>\n<h2>2020<\/h2>\n<p>The Superintendent of the school district in Oak Park (CA) announced the introduction of gender identity curriculum for elementary schools to parents, to include the books <b>Sparkle By<\/b> by Leslea Newman, <b>It&#8217;s Okay to Be Different<\/b> by Todd Parr, <b>Red: A Crayon&#8217;s Story<\/b> by Michael Hall, <b>Neither<\/b> by Airlie Anderson, and <b>Jamie is Jamie: A Book About Being Yourself and Playing Your Way<\/b> by Afsaneh Moradian. The curriculum sparked strong protests from 300 parents, some claiming that the lessons were &#8220;unscientific ideology,&#8221; others believing that the parents should decide whether to broach the subject, not the schools. Following a review by the district curriculum council and parent-teacher organizations at each of the three elementary schools, the Oak Park Board of Education adopted the program.<\/p>\n<h2>2018<\/h2>\n<p>Challenged, but retained in a Rocklin (CA) Academy school. A transgender kindergarten student gave some books about her situation to her teacher, and the teacher read them to the class. Some parents complained to the school board about being &#8220;blindsided.&#8221; The district responded that the books were age-appropriate, fell within the book selection policy, and that unlike sex education, the topic of gender identity did not require prior parental notice. However, the superintendent stated that &#8220;staff will be engaging parents and teachers in discussions about how materials outside our curriculum will be addressed in the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>On These Pages<\/h2>\n<p>A <strong>Banned<\/strong> book has been removed from a library, classroom, etc.<br \/>\nA <strong>Challenged<\/strong> book has been requested to be removed from a library, classroom, etc.<\/p>\n<h2>For additional information contact<\/h2>\n<p>Ron Titus, <a href=\"mailto:titus@marshall.edu\">titus@marshall.edu<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"tel:304-696-6575\">304-696-6575<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Last updated<\/h2>\n<p>September 10, 2021<\/p>\n<p><!-- ** ** END RIGHT COLUMN *** *-->\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<p><!-- *** * END FULL PAGE DIV * *** --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"parent":2039,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full-width.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3390","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3390"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9801,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3390\/revisions\/9801"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}