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no_hypocrisy

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4. As a teacher, my experience with preteens and adolescents has

Reply to DBoon (Original post)

Sat Apr 26, 2025, 10:42 AM

Apr 2025

demonstrated that they simply don't read, save for their texts. Both inability and disinterest.

I could assign Fanny Hill and Lady Chatterley's Lover and nobody would pick up the books.

And hey, we ARE talking about Texas here.

These bills are self-gratuitous, not for their intended demographic.

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