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A South Carolina school hid LGBTQ and BLM materials from parents by restricting access to a catalog, according to a Daily Signal<\/a> report.<\/p>\n Moms for Liberty, a parental rights group, shared internal documents with the outlet, saying, \u201cInstead of listing these books as available in the library, they are making a conscious decision to include them in curriculum read aloud in class so parents don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n In one email, Powdersville High School librarian Jen Chesney wrote, \u201cWe had to remove our card catalogs form online, so parents can\u2019t scour it for critical race theory books (sigh).\u201d<\/p>\n In another email, Chesney wrote, \u201cThe Moms of Liberty are coming hard at us with book challenges (mind you, the leader of the group doesn\u2019t even have a child in our district \u2013 <\/em>*grrrr*), so we\u2019re going to need to tread lightly with our topical choices. They have their censoring guns loaded.\u201d<\/p>\n A librarian at Wagener-Salley High School, Heather Loy, wrote in a 2022 email, \u201cAs much as they don\u2019t want to [hear] it, parents should only be allowed to have a say in THEIR children\u2019s access not what is provided to all students access. Parents should not be included in collection development.\u201d<\/p>\n Parents have overwhelmingly complained about their children being exposed to explicit materials in the classroom.<\/p>\n In December, a police officer was called<\/a> to a middle school in Massachusetts after an anonymous parent said that a frequently-banned book on gender ideology was being read.<\/p>\n The book, \u201cGender Queer,\u201d features sexually explicit material and was banned for two years across the United States.<\/p>\n