Protect Childhood

To The Editor:

After reading the front page article about the school board meeting I checked Bing Maps to see if La Grange was in Loudoun County, Virginia. The parent’s comments seemed polite, logical, and appropriate to me. She was suggesting that books on sexual subjects are not appropriate for an elementary school library. That seems like common sense to me. Instead, the Superintendent’s responses were about process. In other words, he will decide what our children read. Parents are to keep quiet.

The editor of this paper was so moved by these events that he wrote an opinion article about banning books. No one was asking to ban any books. But, sexual content in an elementary school library? Really? Put them in the public library in an appropriate section, and sell them where ever you want.

The primary role of parents is to protect their children’s childhood. I applaud parents who do so.

Parks Tilly

Fayetteville