Teachers and parents have been sharing photos and videos that show rows and rows of empty or covered-up bookshelves in the wake of a dystopian directive.
eachers who “knowingly or unknowingly” violate these rules can be charged with a third-degree felony for exposing students to material that the Florida Department of Education deems “harmful to minors.
Even teachers who didn’t expect to have their class content challenged were forced to clean out their collections: “I got an email from an art teacher who said they’re making [the art teacher] get rid of [their] art books,” Chris Guerrieri, a Duval County public school teacher who runs an educational blog,
told Motherboard. “They can’t even have their books in the classroom. Like they can’t just like, cover them up and put them to the side.”Of course, the most devastated by the forced classroom makeover are the students being greeted by empty bookshelves. Florida Association for Media in Education board member Marie Masferrer—who was also a former librarian in the Manatee County system—
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