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This legislation removes state funding from libraries or schools that ban books. I'm concerned that this will have the unintended consequence that conservative groups will still ban books, libraries will lose funding, and perhaps be forced to close. This outcome won't bother conservatives one bit.

>>allear+(OP)
Agreed. Wouldn’t school choice make more sense? If parents are given vouchers for example, everyone can support a library that they want to and there is no decrease in school funding

>>allear+(OP)
By ban books we mean what? Not allowing certain books to be rented in the library?

>>noneth+O9
Yes.

>>hammoc+P
Sounds great when you are rich, not so much when you aren't

>>allear+(OP)
Ok, but what is the end game? Those parents will either have to homeschool, which they can already do, or you are going to force your kids to attend school with the families you paid a premium to avoid living near.

>>hammoc+P
School choice only makes sense if schools cannot choose their students and must accommodate all of them.

>>brewda+Qa
Seems right to me. Homeschool and teach your kids directly, in whatever form that may take, and with all the rebellion, exemplary results, and/or indoctrination it may come with; or, use your available resources to get your kids trained roughly the way you want; or, let your kids be taught with and by whatever system is available with minimal to zero input. Stratification and discrimination between individuals is pretty natural, even if it's morally abhorrent. Mandates ain't gonna change any of it.

>>outsid+8a
School vouchers are paid for by the government.

>>allear+(OP)
You should read what the American Library Association's Library Bill of Rights says. This is very much a double-edged sword I hope you realize.