In October, parents in the Chino Valley Unified School District east of Los Angeles lined up to address a meeting of their school board. The five-member board was weighing a proposal to make it easier to remove sexually explicit books from district classrooms and libraries.
Those in favor lined up to read from books that they said should be among the first to go. They winced as they repeated lines depicting oral sex, prostitution, incest and rape. One faltered and said he couldn’t go on.
