"Easy Reading" Porn "Suggested" for "Teens" in Bartow School System.
Rupi Kaur's "Milk and Honey" and the "Sun and it's Flowers". Email the School Board to stop this. Come Testify 4/15.
By David McKalip, M.D.
“ Rupi Kaur’s books of poetry are incredibly popular in our library, especially among the young women. Her poetry focuses on problems faced by women of all ages and gives a voice to these issues. Her poetry is often considered “easy reading” and often suggested reading for teens who are “reluctant readers.” (Cassville HS)
(This quote is from an internal BCSS document explaining why sexually explicit books should be retained). (All emphasis added).
The Bartow County School System (BCSS) has INTENTIONALLY retained pornographic material in their library. This was after an internal review and application of “policies” within the school system. This is AFTER “the Process” was allowed to play out. The majority of school board members have, to this point, vigorously defended “The Process” during efforts to remove such books. They have also defended “The Process” during efforts to have them adopt objective standards on what books to keep (legal standards1 from which school libraries are exempt but apply to ordinary citizens for what cannot be given or sold to a minor).
Here is an image of the actual material provided above from the internal BCSS document provided through a public information request.
The Bartow School system’s process gives the power to “experts” (librarians, committees and administrators) to subjectively decide what to keep. The fruits of “The Process” are a scandalous set of pornographic text and images made available to minors. They are even “suggested” or often “recommended” (as in the three books detailed here on 3/18/24). As Jesus taught, “…you will know them by their fruits” (Matthew 7:15-20).
There will be more books revealed every day this week. This is in anticipation of the demanding that the Bartow County School Board remove such books at their Meeting on 4/15 at 6 pm (please show up by 545 to sign up to speak).
Please email school board members today to demand they remove sexually explicit and obscene books (to do so, click on this EMAIL INSTRUCTION FOOTNOTE2)
What is bizarre that some books that are retained (titles to be exposed soon) and others are suggested to have “Content warnings”. These books do not appear to have been given these warnings. It is noteworthy that the school still has no public official policy on content warnings and that superintendent Page personally advised the author of this series (Dr. McKalip), that even if there was a content warning, he could not commit to it being known to parents.
Why is material such as this retained, while other similar material is removed?
The reason why is that there is NO Objective standard (see footnote 1 below). Just the whims of the “Experts” working in “The Process”.
CAUTION OFFENSIVE (but censored) MATERIAL BELOW - AGE 18 and Over please. Cease Reading to avoid.
CAUTION OFFENSIVE (but censored) MATERIAL BELOW - AGE 18 and Over please. Cease Reading to avoid.
Rupi Kaur’s Pornography “suggested” to those teens who are “reluctant readers” in Bartow County Schools.
The books “Milk and Honey” and “The Sun and Her Flowers” are described as full of poems. These “poems” are overtly sexual or thinly disguised double entendre’ works. They have even been panned by the Journalism group in India by writer “Shaurya Thapa” with links to the author Rupi Kaur provocatively reading these online.
As always, this blog will not post full imagery or text that is obscene or pornographic, but will post censored excerpts (See below).
The links to uncensored sexually explicit content of the books are below for review. Adult readers are encouraged to proceed with caution if they want to know the full truth about these books.
Each of these examples violate state law about what can be given or sold to a minor, EXCEPT FOR SCHOOL LIBRARIES! (foot note 1 below)
“Milk and Honey” Links and Censored Excerpts
There are links of full pages from “Library Exposed”.
Link from “Rated Books” that has these rated as 4/5 (not for minors under 18).
Many more sexually explicit examples are in the links above.
“Sun and Her Flowers” Links and Censored Excerpts
There are links of full pages from “Library Exposed”.
Link from “Rated Books” that has these rated as 4/5 (not for minors under 18).
Many more sexually explicit examples are in the links above.
(Act: please see Foot note 2 below)
“18 A sound tree cannot bear evil fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Thus you will know them by their fruits.” Matthew 7:15-20
In Freedom!
16-12-100
(a) As used in this Code section, the term:
(1) “Minor” means any person under the age of 18 years.
(2) “Performance” means any play, dance, or exhibit to be shown to or viewed by an audience.
(3) “Producing” means producing, directing, manufacturing, issuing, or publishing.
(4) “Sexually explicit conduct” means actual or simulated:
(A) Sexual intercourse, including genital-genital, oral-genital, anal-genital, or oral-anal, whether between persons of the same or opposite sex;
(B) Bestiality;
(C) Masturbation;
(D) Lewd exhibition of the genitals or pubic area of any person;
(E) Flagellation or torture by or upon a person who is nude;
(F) Condition of being fettered, bound, or otherwise physically restrained on the part of a person who is nude;
(G) Physical contact in an act of apparent sexual stimulation or gratification with any person’s unclothed genitals, pubic area, or buttocks or with a female’s nude breasts;
(H) Defecation or urination for the purpose of sexual stimulation of the viewer; or
(I) Penetration of the vagina or rectum by any object except when done as part of a recognized medical procedure.
(5) “Visual medium” means any film, photograph, negative, slide, magazine, or other visual medium.
16-12-102. Definitions.
As used in this part, the term:
(1) “Harmful to minors” means that quality of description or representation, in whatever form, of nudity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement, or sadomasochistic abuse, when it:
(A) Taken as a whole, predominantly appeals to the prurient, shameful, or morbid interest of minors;
(B) Is patently offensive to prevailing standards in the adult community as a whole with respect to what is suitable material for minors; and
(C) Is, when taken as a whole, lacking in serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for minors.
(2) “Knowingly” means having a general knowledge of, or reason to know, or a belief or ground for belief which warrants further inspection or inquiry of both:
(A) The character and content of any material described in this part which is reasonably susceptible to examination by the defendant; and
(B) The age of the minor; provided, however, that an honest mistake shall constitute an excuse from liability in this part if the defendant made a reasonable, bona fide attempt to ascertain the true age of such minor.
(3) “Minor” means a person less than 18 years of age.
(4) “Sadomasochistic abuse” means actual or simulated flagellation or torture by or upon a person who is nude, clad in undergarments, a mask or bizarre costume, or the condition of being fettered, bound, or otherwise physically restrained by one so clothed or nude.
(5) “Sexual conduct” means actual or simulated acts of masturbation, homosexuality, sexual intercourse, or physical contact in an act of apparent sexual stimulation or gratification with a person’s clothed or unclothed genitals, pubic area, buttocks, or, if such person is female, breasts.
(6) “Sexual excitement” means the condition of human male or female genitals when in a state of sexual stimulation or arousal.
(7) “Sexually explicit nudity” means a state of undress so as to expose the human male or female genitals, pubic area, or buttocks with less than a full opaque covering, or the showing of the female breast with less than a fully opaque covering of any portion thereof below the top of the nipple, or the depiction of covered or uncovered male genitals in a discernibly turgid state.
Please Email School Board Members and Superintendent Dr. Phillip Page to insist they remove obscene and pornographic books from the school libraries and the classrooms. Paste these email addresses in the “to” area.
To:tony.ross@bartow.k12.ga.us; darla.williams@bartow.k12.ga.us; matt.shultz@bartow.k12.ga.us; butch.emerson@bartow.k12.ga.us; anna.sullivan@bartow.k12.ga.us; bartowfreedom@proton.me; Phillip.page@bartow.k12.ga.us
Paste to “Subject”
Subject: Please remove obscene books now and establish objective standards
Paste to “Body” (or create your own message).
Dear Members of the School Board and Dr. Page,
We ask that you immediately remove obscene and pornographic books from the school libraries and the classroom. We ask for action to create objective standards so that no such books are ordered again. A list of books found so far have been provided by the Bartow Freedom Coalition to the each of you. There have been some removed, and we thank you. But many remain.
Thank you,
[name]
PRESS SEND! (note that the Bartow Freedom Coalition email is included to help keep track of the campaign).
Please come no later than 5:45 to sign up to speak at the 6 pm Bartow County School Board Meeting at 6 pm on Monday, 4/15 at 65 Gilreath Road.
Thank you for the updates on this matter. I have written to the board personally and have made my request to have these books removed from our school libraries.