Iowa Republicans FORCE Teachers To Use Unreal Measures For Extreme Book Ban
August 20, 2023
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7:43Now PlayingIowa Republicans FORCE Teachers To Use Unreal Measures For Extreme Book Ban
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as posted by the channelAfter Republican Governor Kim Reynolds signed in a 'parental rights' bill teachers and libraries are forced to comply with law banning books for certain age groups by any means they can. Jayar Jackson and Rayyvana break it down on The Damage Report.
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How an Iowa School District Used ChatGPT to Ban Books
"FOR BOOKWORMS, READING a headline like “School District Uses ChatGPT to Help Remove Library Books” can be blood boiling. As Vulture put it earlier this week, it creates the sense that the artificial intelligence tool is once again “[taking] out its No. 1 enemy: original work.” And it is. Using ChatGPT’s guidance, the Mason City Community School District removed 19 titles—including Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Toni Morrison’s Beloved—from its library shelves. But there is another truth: Educators who must comply with vague laws about “age-appropriate” books with “descriptions or visual depictions of a sex act” have only so many options.
Signed into law by Governor Kim Reynolds in May, Iowa’s SF 496 is one of those “parental rights” bills that have become popular with Republican lawmakers of late and seek to limit discussion of sexuality and gender identity in schools. (Some have likened Iowa’s bill to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” legislation.) Its stipulations are a sweeping attempt at eradicating any discussion of sex or sexuality, and as Mason City School District’s assistant superintendent Bridgette Exman explained in a statement to the Mason City Globe Gazette, “it is simply not feasible to read every book and filter for these new requirements.”"
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