…then why is it in the school library, where students can read it?
From Emily Medeiros’ article at dailysignal.com:
A Texas conservative activist is suing the Houston Independent School District after the school board removed her from a meeting for reading sexually explicit passages from a book available in the district’s school libraries.
Bonnie Wallace, who lives in the Texas Hill Country, has attended multiple school board meetings to show trustees that books containing sexually explicit material are available in their school libraries and should be removed.
During a March 2026 Houston ISD school board meeting, Wallace addressed the board during public comment and said she would be reading from a book currently available to students in the district.
Wallace began reading verbatim from “A Court of Silver Flames,” a Sarah J. Maas fantasy romance novel filled with sexually explicit content. Trustees issued multiple warnings as she continued reading the book.
After Wallace continued reading despite warnings from trustees, three police officers escorted her from the meeting.
“[Trustee Angela Lemond Flowers] said you can’t read anything inappropriate,” Wallace told the Daily Signal.
During the exchange, which was posted on X, Lemond Flowers can be heard telling Wallace that she was “not allowed to read things that are not appropriate.”
Wallace responded, “Then why are they in your schools?”
“Then why are they in your schools”? That is a great question.
Needless to say, no one at that school board had an answer.
Now: what is the Houston School Board going to do about this – or, more probably, what are the parents of students in Houston going to demand they do about it?
I’ll let you know if/when I find out.
