More than 60,000 students in North East ISD in San Antonio will walk into classrooms on Tuesday with NO BOOKS or with “library closed” signs blocking access to classroom libraries as a result of Senate Bill 13.

NEISD is only the latest (and maybe the largest) district to react to the law by forcing teachers to remove their classroom libraries. Melissa ISD issued a similar directive a few weeks ago. Since then, we’ve heard of several more.

Even though the law doesn't require it, Melissa ISD is forbidding class libraries, book bins, & reading corners after book banners forced the law over objections of Texas parents.

This article in the Dallas Observer is also mandatory reading. The law has led Coppell ISD to “protect” its students from Charlotte’s Web. It’s causing mass confusion, extra labor for teachers, and a loss of reading opportunities for students.

Most of these are the result of overreactions—but those overreactions were entirely predictable. We predicted them! When the law was being debated, parents, students, librarians, teachers, and authors TOLD lawmakers these things would happen. They didn’t listen.

What can you do?

Email your state senator and representative and let them know how you feel about Senate Bill 13.

Yes, even though it already passed. Every Republican in both chambers voted for it.

They don’t get to pass bad laws and then blithely escape accountability.

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Email Governor Abbott, Senator Angela Paxton, and your local Texas representatives NOW.