Dear School Board members & Superintendent, We are writing to you to express our distress and disagreement with the recent removal and banning of Julia Alvarez’ book, “How The Garcia Girls Lost…
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Request for reversal of Tillamook School Board’s decision to remove How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez from high school curriculum
EDITOR’S NOTE: Over 50 local, Tillamook County community members signed a request to the TSD#9 School Board to reverse the book ban. Local people continue to be added to the list ……
Tillamook School District Ignores Requests to Reverse Book Ban from Parents, Community Members
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Tillamook School District #9 School Board meeting is Monday September 9th at 5:30pm. There is NOT an agenda item about reversing the ban on “How the Garcia Girls Lost…
AUTHORS AGAINST BOOK BANS – LETTER TO TILLAMOOK SCHOOL BOARD – Over 700 signatures to bring back Garcia Girls
September 3, 2024 Dear Tillamook School Board Members, We, the undersigned authors and illustrators, are writing to oppose the removal of How the García Girls Lost Their Accents from your district’s 10th-grade…
Request for Reversal of Tillamook School Board Decision to Remove Book
I do not currently have children or grandchildren in the Tillamook School District, but I pay taxes in this district, and I care deeply about the quality of education the students TSD…
Questioning the Need for Explicit Content in Required Reading
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez is a novel that tells the story of the García family, who flee the Dominican Republic for the United States in the…
Tillamook School Board Votes to Ban Book – “How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents”
By Laura Swanson When this situation was first brought to our attention, the initial reaction was “Are you kidding me?” And then we are reminded that there is a small group of…
OP/ED: What year is this? Tillamook School Board Book Banning Embarassment
By Romy Carver I am a Tillamook High School alumnus, raised three Tillamook High School graduates, and currently have two students in Tillamook Schools. I am deeply embarrassed for our community by…
The thing about reading and history …
Last night (August 12th) I got to listen to a couple of men emotionally explain to the TSD 9 Board of Directors why girls shouldn’t have to hear what some men have…
Letter to the Editor: How Our School District Lost Its Books
I’m a parent of three students who attend Tillamook school district. Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been following the process the district has used to review the book How the Garcia…
