Opinion: Spotsylvania comes to its senses and rescinds order banning books in school libraries. [View all]

The parents of a high school student in Spotsylvania County appeared before the school board this month to complain about two books available to students from school libraries that they considered objectionable. Schools have become a flashpoint in the country’s cultural and political wars, and so the knee-jerk response from the school board — ordering the removal of “sexually explicit” books from school libraries — was not a surprise. What followed, though, was a heartening example of a community showing more common sense than its elected school board members and unafraid to speak its mind.

Widespread opposition from students, parents and teachers persuaded the board on Monday to rescind its Nov. 8 unanimous decision directing Schools Superintendent S. Scott Baker to reconsider whether every sexually explicit book in school libraries should be kept or permanently removed. The order, The Post’s Hannah Natanson reported, had forced “a team of about three dozen staffers, including all of the district’s librarians, to start poring through tens of thousands of titles.”

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