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Several Peel District School Board students, parents and community members are concerned about a seemingly inconsistent approach to a new book weeding process intended to ensure school library books are inclusive, but that appears to have led some schools to remove thousands of books published in 2008 or earlier.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It sounds more like they're removing books well before they need to in the name of them being old, but not replacing them.

15 years is not that long for a book, although in a school library that might be different.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In a school library there shoukd be a mix of older and newer books so that students are exposed to a wide variety of content, writing styles, etc.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In this context, β€œolder” refers to the age of the physical book, not the date it was first published.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

No, in this context it is not the physical age of the books themselves as the whole thing is about promoting being inclusive by assuming any book older than 15 years is less inclusive.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

The subtitle of the article is "Books published in 2008 or earlier removed from school library amid confusion around new equity-based process".