In 2022, Parents all over the USA were exposing the sexually graphic books pushed into their local schools. Many were rightly angry with their school districts for ordering the books, and many were angry with the book vendors who turned on their own customers throwing school districts under the bus. Follett, based near Chicago, got a lot of heat over this and proposed use of a process that would keep parents informed of what their kids checked out at school. The ALA quickly put a stop to Follett pursuing parental notification of children’s signed out books. This link is to a 2022 article on the ALA’s Intellectual Freedom blog describing how librarians put a rapid stop, using threats, to a proposed program that would have allowed parental notification of school library books signed out by their children. The proposed parental notification system was something developed by the Follett company (the leading management system for school libraries nationwide). Follett had apparently come up with the strategy to encourage parent involvement in response to complaints about sexually explicit content and new parental rights legislation. Some librarians threatened to cancel their school’s Follett accounts if parents were notified about Children’s book selections. Follett shelved the proposal. If you click in the link below, you will see “Oops” that the page doesn’t exist any longer. These are times when I am SO grateful for the Wayback Machine (archive.org) and how we can prove that the article can still be found. (Screenshots provided below). #ExposeTheALA #DefundTheALA Pornography is not Education! @pamlittletx @BradBuckleyDVM @AngelaPaxtonTX @CreightonForTX @GregAbbott_TX @DanPatrick @AaronKinseyTX @TSLAC @teainfo @AskATranswidow @JaredLPatterson @MattShaheen @txpride1836 oif.ala.org/oif/swift-feedba…