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TexasTowelie

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Mon Nov 29, 2021, 02:46 PM Nov 2021

Iowa Students Fed Up With Angry Adults At School Board Meetings [View all]

If you listen to the students, they will tell you they are fed up with adults.

More specifically, with parents or other community members making spectacles and sparking controversies at school board meetings.

While mask mandates remain contentious, the focus has shifted toward books in high school libraries such as Waukee’s Northwest High School. People have also complained in Urbandale and Ankeny, as part of broader right-wing effort across the country to limit what books are in schools.

What Students Say

For Adrieanah Hamand, a senior at Northwest High School in Waukee, this uproar is just one more thing that high school students have to deal with.

“It’s just exhausting that now we’re having to go through a fight about books, which has been a fight that we’ve already won by getting them in our libraries in the first place,” Hamand, who uses she/they pronouns, said.

Read more: https://iowastartingline.com/2021/11/17/iowa-students-fed-up-with-angry-adults-at-school-board-meetings/

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