School district bans the dictionary to comply with Ron DeSantis’s book-ban law. Dictionaries contain words that potentially violate the law’s broad language.

by southpawFA

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  1. >*The Escambia County School District has reportedly removed over 2800 books from library shelves as they undergo a review process that will determine if they are inappropriate for students, according to Popular Information.*
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    >***Among the books currently relegated to storage are The American Heritage Children’s Dictionary, Webster’s Dictionary for Students, and Merriam-Webster’s Elementary Dictionary.***
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    >Escambia County is known for its strict response to H.B. 1069, as well as for the antics of a certain English teacher, Vicki Baggett.
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    >*Baggett has become notorious for her crusade to ban over 100 books from Escambia school libraries and submitted almost every single one of the 150 book challenges being reviewed by the district in 2023.*
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    >Many of the challenged books are by Black authors or deal with LGBTQ+ topics.
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    >*Baggett also made headlines in November for using a student to help orchestrate a harebrained scheme (*[with Moms for Liberty’s help](https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/11/a-mom-is-outraged-that-moms-for-liberty-used-her-daughter-in-a-harebrained-scheme-to-ban-a-book/)*) to ban a book in a nearby county.*

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    How the heck is this in any way okay to people? Now, not even the dictionary is safe?

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    And they keep wondering why Florida has such a severe teacher shortage right now! Who wants to teach in a school that would ban the dictionary? It’s so ridiculous!

  2. The dictionary.

    Welcome to Florida, where having knowledge is a crime!

  3. Me and my buddies used to laugh at the dirty words in the dictionary during study hall. Kids in Florida don’t know how bad they’ve got it.

  4. They should ban all books. You may not have noticed but they all have letters in them. Lots of them. And those letters can be rearranged to say wrong things.
    Do I need the /s?

    Edited typo.

  6. What I want to know is, where are all the commenters who were telling us that this law was only going to keep 6 year olds from learning about butt stuff?

  7. Well, now the FL kids can’t look up the word “smile”. So, Ron is safe from ridicule.

  9. How insensate. For those who don’t know the word, if you live in Florida, sorry, dictionary banned in school.

  13. Is there no one on the Escambia school board with enough courage to stand up and say, “This is stupid”?

  15. Language itself is woke! From now on, all Floridians must communicate using only monosyllabic grunts. All writing must be in the form of pictographs on cave walls, and must first be approved by the Governor’s office.

  16. Words out that the thesaurus is next. However, when questioned about this Gov. DeSantis stated that dinosaurs aren’t real.

  17. The Florida spelling bee are either going to be super easy or really weird this year.

  18. Floridians are scared of the dictionary. Tell me how Florida isn’t Idiocracy.

  21. Have they banned calculators yet? You won’t BELIEVE what happens when you type 58008 and hold your calculator upside down! Won’t someone PLEASE think of the children!? 🙁

  22. Well, how else they gonna keep maga morons stupid enough to keep drinking da kool-aid

  23. This is when they start making their own dictionaries.

  25. Dictionaries are a liberal plot to make conservatives look dumb – I have the freedom to spell words however I want!

    /s

  26. I’m guessing a republican donor has a “non-woke” dictionary that they want the schools buy as part of some kickback scheme.

  27. Part of me wonders if banning the Dictionary was done as a form of malicious compliance, because honestly that makes it 1000x funnier

  28. …I wonder if people are starting to notice what happens when you fill an entire party with psychos that have nothing but identity politics to offer?

  29. They know that if children get real fact-based educations they will be unlikely believe MAGA nonsense and won’t vote Republican when they come of age.

  30. As a young student, I spent hours reading the English dictionary.

  31. Republicans are literally the dumbest fucking people on the planet

  32. Non-American here. Banning dictionaries is like the modern day book burnings.
    I have visited Florida dozens of times, sad to know it’s become a medieval state.

  35. I’m all for malicious compliance, but would rather see some civil disobedience. Make the state come take the books by force.

  36. Hello from r/bannedbooks! 🙂 We’ve put together a giant collection of 32 classic banned books: if you care about book bans, you might find it useful. It’s got Voltaire, Mark Twain, The Scarlet Letter, and other classics that were banned at some point in the past. (And many of them are banned even now, as you can see yourself.)

    You can find more information on the Banned Book Compendium over here: https://www.reddit.com/r/bannedbooks/comments/12f24xc/ive_made_a_digital_collection_of_32_classic/ Feel free to share that file far and wide: bonus points if you can share it with students, teachers, and librarians. 🙂

    A book is not a crime.

  37. The wokest of closeted woke high heel wearing men( can you imagine his corns from them heels?) stunting the growth of others. He needs to go!

  38. So here we are.

    A part of a state in the US bans the dictionary. Well done America, well done.

  39. Gotta keep ’em stupid if you want them to keep voting for stupid.

  41. They might want to really read the Bible. There is plenty of sexual content in that tome also.

  42. Hell, ban all books. They have letters that can be rearranged into banned words or concepts. We can’t allow that. Once the books are banned, ban reading and then thinking. This will surely put Florida on top of the brain trust.

  43. Wait til they get a look at the Bible!!

    Chock full of incest, murder, magic and more!!

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