For more than two years Paula Mimnaugh, has tirelessly endeavored to petition the Iredell County School Board to take action against the many obscene books that have been perversely introduced into our county’s public school libraries. The board and school supervisor have shown little concern about this very important moral issue in the past, and they have taken minimal action, removing only a few obscene print books from schools after parents filed complaints.
At the recent January 8th Iredell School Board meeting, Paula addressed the board about obscene books that she discovered are available to children in digital format in county schools. She reported that all public school children are automatically given identification/lunch numbers that the Iredell public libraries use to set up accounts that permit the students unfettered access to digital books on their school-provided handheld computer devices. At the Statesville public library, children are even permitted access to the set-aside adult book collection, and there is absolutely no age limitation.
As examples, Mrs. Mimnaugh verified that two books, A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah Maas and Identical by Ellen Hopkins, both previously identified as having horrendous obscene content, were actually available to high school students through their public library access accounts. In her effort to create public awareness and raise concern by the board members, she read excerpts illustrating the inappropriate, pervasive obscenity found in these two books.
Dozens of other age-inappropriate sexualized books not currently found on school library shelves are easily available to students via the public library digital access automatically provided to them by the Iredell public school system.
– Edward Mimnaugh
