Culture war fight in local schools

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And at a Great Neck school meeting in 2021 a handful of parents attended to protest how issues regarding race were being taught in classrooms. Concerns were raised about creating white guilt.

We have seen this movie before. Slavery and Jim Crow laws that followed Reconstruc- tion somehow did make the school curriculum in many places.

The large majority of book bans underway today are not “spontaneous, organic expressions of citizen concern,”according to PEN America, an association representing authors. “Rather, they reflect the work of a growing number of advocacy organizations that have made demanding censorship of certain books and ideas in schools part of their mission.

Rory Lancman, a former New York State assemblyman and New York City councilman who was appointed executive director of the LIPA Commission, recognized the threat to Great Neck by running for the library board. He won and was elected president.

More of those in the majority on this debate need to join Lancman by getting involved. There is a war going on whether you know it or not.