He said the school district is attempting to follow House Bill 374, a 2022 law which “prohibits certain sensitive instructional materials in public schools” and requires a “local education agency to include parents who are reflective of a school’s community when determining whether an instructional material is sensitive material.” The text of the law defines “sensitive material” as “instructional material that is pornographic or indecent material.” Williams told CNN he estimated seven or eight elementary schools and middle schools had the Bible in their libraries before the decision. “The committee decided to retain the book in school library circulation only at the high school level based on age appropriateness due to vulgarity or violence,” he wrote in an email. The request to review the Book of Mormon comes after the district announced they would remove the King James edition of the Bible from the district’s elementary and middle school libraries because of “vulgarity or violence.” “The district will treat this request just like any other request and will follow the policy as outlined” on school library media centers. “There have been no other requests made regarding other religious texts,” Williams said. Williams told CNN he has not seen the request and does not know the grounds on which it was made. New Iowa law restricts gender identity education, bans books with sexual content A classroom sits empty as students take a break for lunch on Tuesday, May 24, 2022, at an elementary school in Iowa.
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