Several people proposed arguing that the text is necessary because it teaches about the little-known medical condition of being intersex. The proposed statement for Gregorio’s “None of the Above” spurred some debate at the meeting in late April. … Books are how you learn life lessons.” - Isabela Rotondaro “I’m learning something from these books. Johnson’s “ All Boys Aren’t Blue,” a memoir about growing up Black and queer. Four books are still unavailable in school libraries as they undergo reviews, Cramer said, including the much-challenged “ Lawn Boy,” a novel by Jonathan Evison that features an encounter between two male students, and George M. School spokeswoman Cramer said three other titles have also been returned, two of those because the people who challenged them decided to rescind their complaints. The Wentzville district voted in late February to return “The Bluest Eye” to shelves. “The more we hide this stuff from people, keep it down and muffled, nothing is going to change,” he said. He said this will never stop if other students - his district is more than 80 percent White - do not learn to see African Americans as people just like themselves. He recalled seeing the n-word scrawled on school bathroom walls, uttered in school hallways and hissed at him on the basketball court. “The more we hide this stuff from people, keep it down and muffled, nothing is going to change.” - High school senior
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