She said to date, and after several emails, only her school board representative responded with a suggestion of who to email to get a response about if and how her complaint was being investigated. 26, and then emailed again a week later because no one responded. … I wanted them to review the content in those videos and reply to me and tell me if it’s being looked at on a state level.” “I emailed who I thought had the authority to address my concerns. “I am not the type of person who wants to get into confrontation,” said Megan, who has children in elementary and middle schools in the Canyons District but no child in high school. The books that school officials pulled from the shelves of Alta, Brighton, Jordan and Corner Canyon high schools are the same books listed in the email from a Sandy woman who described herself a “mother in the Canyons School District.”īut the woman, who spoke with KSL on the condition that only her first name be used, said she never asked for the books to be pulled from the shelves. He added, “But just because we don’t have an official challenge to a book doesn’t mean we can’t review titles for content.” “If we would have had a challenge from a patron/employee with standing according to the policy, then the policy outlines how the district would proceed.” “We do not have a challenge to any book,” Haney told KSL.com.
That’s because the woman who complained is challenging the books from all school libraries in the district instead of just from a library where her child attends school , he said. District spokesman Jeff Haney said the policy doesn’t apply to this situation, and says the district decided to pull the books off the shelves of the school libraries while district officials review what they now feel is an issue with the policy itself - the fact that challenges to library materials cannot come from outside a school community, nor can they come from the superintendent’s office or school board members.īut Haney said the district isn’t facing any official challenge because the email complaint isn’t the type of challenge contemplated by current district policies.