education

S6E12: Children’s Rights and Parents’ Wrongs

Kieryn Darkwater — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 13:03:03 +0000

Kieryn and Eve discuss the German family who sought (and were temporarily-ish granted!) asylum in the US to be allowed to homeschool their kids because Germany takes the rights and education of Children seriously.

Show notes:
tinyurl.com/romeikenotes
This episode was produced by the lovely Mary Steffenhagen!

S6E6: We Are All the Public Library with Eddie the Librarian

Kieryn Darkwater — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 10:16:22 +0000

What do censorship, homeschooling, intellectual freedom, and libraries have in common? We get into it today with Eddie Kristan about the fight libraries are seeing with parental-rights extremist groups trying to censor books and the impact that has on children’s rights to access information.

Show Notes:

Institutions on the job:

Freedom to Read Foundation (IF arm of the ALA): https://www.ftrf.org/
Emily Knox – Freedom to Read Foundation – knox@illinois.edu
PEN American has been on the job: https://pen.org/report/book-bans-pressure-to-censor/
DPLA – the banned book club: https://www.dplabannedbookclub.com/
Queer Liberation Library https://www.queerliberationlibrary.org/
Brooklyn Public Library’s Books Unbanned: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/books-unbanned
Chicago Public Library Book Sanctuaries: https://www.chipublib.org/news/book-sanctuaries-committed-to-protecting-banned-and-challenge-books/
CPL Book Sanctuary Project: https://www.booksanctuary.org/

Past ALA cases:

United States, et al. v. American Library Association, Inc. et al., 539 U.S. 194, 123 S.Ct. 2297, 156 L.Ed.2d 221 (2003)
Tattered Cover, Inc. v. City of Thornton, 44 P.3d 1044 (Colo. Sup. Ct., 2002)
Sund v. City of Wichita Falls, Texas, 121 F. Supp. 2d 530 (N.D. Texas, 2000) the “300 signatories” case.
Case v. Unified School District No. 233, 908 F. Supp. 864 (D. Kan. 1995) The “Annie on my mind” case.

Active cases to follow:

Pen America v. Escanaba School District 23-cv-10385 Filed May 17, 2023
Fayetteville Public Library v Crawford County et al. -23-CV-05086
Book People Inc et al. v. Wong 23-cv-00858 – Filed July 25, 2023
Leila Green Little, et al. v. Llano County, Llano County Texas Library
Most concerning bills:
Idaho HB 666
Indiana SB 17
Iowa HB 2176
Oklahoma SB 1142
South Dakota House Bill 1337:
Tennessee House Bill 1944
Tennessee House Bill 800

Follow:

emilyknox.net
@fobettarh
EddieKristan
Eddie the Giant Librarian

S5E17: Back To School Right-Wing Extremism Edition

Kieryn Darkwater — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 08:46:59 +0000

Eve and Kieryn chat about the right-wing extremist pivot to taking down all public education institutions. We’ve talked in prior episodes about radical right-wing groups taking over K-12 education, and today we explain dog whistles of “clasical liberal” education and how even well-meaning leftists are furthering the agenda to dismantle public universities and libraries.

**Notes**

S5E15: Fringe of the Fringe with Aaron & Christina Beall

Kieryn Darkwater — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 08:09:58 +0000

Eve and Kieryn are joined by Aaron and Christina Beall to talk about their experience leaving the christian fundamentalist homeschooling movement and shining a public light on abuse.

Read the WaPo article:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/interactive/2023/christian-home-schoolers-revolt/

Follow Aaron & Christina:

https://www.instagram.com/apostate_aaron/

https://www.instagram.com/christinabeally/

S5E9: Parental Rights Extremism Part 2

Kieryn Darkwater — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 00:26:00 +0000

Hold on to your hats, Kieryn and Eve do a Deep Dive into the legal history of parental rights and what lays the groundwork for how children’s rights are treated (or extremely not, as the case may be) in the US.

Notes:

https://web.archive.org/web/20150908152647/http://www.hslda.org/parentalrights/