Kudos to the much maligned “two concerned parents of Hinsdale” who objected to LGBT-related books being purchased by school libraries. Bret Conway (Aug. 29 guest commentary) dismissed them as “morally outraged” people with “talking points” who were attempting to censor books written for children which they believed held morally objectionable content. He said in his commentary that they were “undermining the professional authority of our school.”
In other words, parents have no right to object to the decisions that “professionals” make with regard to what books their children are exposed to at the library.
Employees of the library are public servants whose authority is granted them by the community. Bret Conway has it backwards.
Parents not only have a right to object to children’s books with sexually explicit content but have a right to have their voices heard and acted upon. — Laura Nelson, La Grange