“No timeline has been established for the review to be completed,” Williams said in a message to the Standard-Examiner.Ī total of 99 books in all have faced review or are in the process of being reviewed by separate committees due to requests put to the district, up from 80 last March. Williams said the review of the Bible by a special Sensitive Materials Committee continues but offered no time frame for completion of the work.
If other books are to be pulled from schools per the provision of H.B. Whoever asked for removal of the Bible - school officials haven’t identified the person - seemed irked that other books were getting pulled from Davis School District shelves and wanted to make the point that the religious book, too, contains sexual references. Otherwise, reaction has been fairly muted, even if the topic is a touchy one. Nonetheless, the letters from the groups represent the only outside feedback submitted to the school district on the issue, according to Chris Williams, the district spokesperson. Schools around the state last year updated their policies regarding sexual content in books on school shelves in response to passage of House Bill 374, which more specifically defines “sensitive materials” and prohibits them in schools. When the news went public last March, the request to remove the Bible, coming from someone affiliated with Davis High School in Kaysville, garnered a rush of attention and strong reaction, perhaps figuring in the submissions from the First Liberty Institute and the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Whatever the case, the two organizations offered their take on things in letters they sent to school officials late last month in a bid to sway results their direction. The guidelines on who may provide comment, meantime, would rule out the First Liberty Institute and the Freedom From Religion Foundation as permissible commenters.
The request calling for removal of the Bible due to the sexual content it contains was submitted late last year, Dec. “Public comment will be accepted from any community member who lives within the geographic boundary of Davis School District or any employee of Davis School District,” the policy reads. But there’s a time constraint - feedback must be provided within the first 10 school days of the review process - and limits on who may offer their 2 cents’. The district’s sensitive materials policy, updated last year as in many school districts across Utah, allows for public comment on books under review for removal from school library bookshelves due to the sexual content in their pages.
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