Rejecting Classic Books

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

Rejected Elementary Books

  • My Body is Me by Rachel Rooney

  • The Handsome Little Cygnet by Matthew Mehan

Rejected 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

What You Can Do

Please take a look at the books available in our schools in the searchable Frederick County Public Schools catalog.