Banning Conservative Books

We were surprised to learn that when a citizen offered to donate award-winning conservative/libertarian books to Frederick County Public School libraries, nearly all of them were rejected by the school system without any justification or reasoning.

Please take a look at the books available in our schools in the searchable Frederick County Public Schools catalog. If you’d like to donate an important book that our schools are missing, please email katherine.gull@fcps.org and ask her if the Frederick County Public Schools will approve it, and then email us the results at info@betterMarylandSchools.org.

Also, you might want to examine this list of books Frederick County Public Schools was asked to reconsider and descriptions of their explicit content. Most of these books were approved. Yet important academic works that are conservative or libertarian are banned? If you find a book on our library shelves that you would like to be reconsidered, please click here for the Library Media Services and request a book reconsideration form.

Banned Elementary Books

• My Body is Me by Rachel Rooney

• The Handsome Little Cygnet by Matthew Mehan

Banned High School Books

• Irreversible Damage by Abigail Shrier

• The Conservative Sensibility by George Will

• Conscience of a Conservative by Barry Goldwater

• God and Man at Yale, by William F. Buckley

• Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton

• Ideas have consequences by Richard Weaver

• The Fatal Conceit by F.A. Hayek

• A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell

• The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk 

Approved Books

• The End of Gender: debunking myths about sex and identity in our society  by Debra Soh

• Things That Matter: three decades of passions, pastimes, and politics by Charles Krauthammer

• Trans-when ideology meets reality by Helen Joyce

• Woke Racism: how a new religion has betrayed Black America  by John McWhorter