To let him know I will be making a donation to the ACLU.

He responded, quickly, with this:


Dan Snowberger
10:04 AM (8 minutes ago)
to me

So you support pornography in our schools? Here's one excerpt from a more tame part of a book we removed from our collection.

Identical by Ellen Hopkins (EHS)

Identical is about twin girls, Kaeleigh and Raeanne. Kaeleigh is the good girl-her father's perfect flower, something she has tried so hard to be since she was nine and he started sexually abusing her. She cuts herself and binge eats, desperate to feel something normal. Raeanne uses painkillers, drugs, alcohol, sex, and purging as an outlet to numb the pain of not being Daddy's favorite.

I cracked my eyes just a slit as he sat
on Kaeleigh’s bed, pulled her into
his lap. He smelled of Brut and Wild
Turkey. His peculiar potpourri.
I love you so much, my little
flower. Daddy needs something
from my girl, my sweet rose.
Will you give it to me?
I wanted to be his little flower,
would have given my Daddy anything.
What did he want from Kaeleigh?
She laid her head on his chest. “What?”
I want you to see something,
something that proves how
much I love you. This is only
for you, Kaeleigh girl.
He lifted her gently, sat her
down on the bed beside him.
Then he opened the snaps on
the fly of his flannel pajamas.
*********
Confused at his tears,
and at the sticky stuff icing
her hands, still Kaeleigh pleaded,
“Don’t cry, Daddy. What’s the matter? Didn’t
I love you good enough?”


I responded with:
xxxxx@gmail.com>
10:11 AM (3 minutes ago)
to Dan

I support the poor girls who are going through this in REAL LIFE and have no idea that others have suffered and there is help available. You want them to suffer in silence.

His response: Absolutely not. That's what counseling and other wrap-around supports are for. No child should suffer in silence. I also believe no child should be exposed to filth and pornography while at school. I think we can both be right in this circumstance. Your knowledge of the actions taken in conjunction with the community is limited. It might be wise to actually understand everything that went into such an important decision other than reducing it to a simple "book ban" conversation.

Dan