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CHILDREN WIN!
Heated Legislative Hearing
Ben Sellers reporter for the Carolina Journal.com reported Rep. Brenden Jones accused Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools (CHCCS) of defying Senate Bill 49, the “Parents’ Bill of Rights,” passed in August 2023, which mandates prohibits discussion of gender K-4th grade and gives parents access to curriculum content. A viral Libs of TikTok video from October 2025 showed CHCCS Board Chair George Griffin at a September 2025 forum calling parts of the law “discriminatory” and admitting the board rejected two provisions.
Read his articles in entirety here:
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Legislators Allege School Sistricts Ignoring ‘Parents Bill of Rights’ Law
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Sparks Fly in Legislative Hearing on School Indoctrination
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The Pavement Education Project urges the House Oversight Committee to ensure all districts comply with the Parents' Bill of Rights, so parents feel confident sending their children to public schools.
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*In North Carolina, parents are increasingly choosing homeschooling, private schools, and charter schools over traditional public schools, with public school enrollment dropping from 84% in 2015 to 76% in 2024. Homeschooling accounts for about 10.6% of K-12 students (approximately 165,243 students), private schools 7% (131,230 students), and charter schools 7.3% (146,000 students) in the 2023-2024 school year, reflecting a 40% rise in homeschooling over the past decade and a 3.2% increase in private school enrollment from the previous year.
Randolph County Commissioners Dissolve Library Board
Over Book Dispute
In a report by Amy Diaz for Blue Ridge Public Radio, she stated Randolph County Commissioners voted 3-2 Monday to dissolve the public library’s board of trustees, two months after the board opted to retain "Call Me Max," a children’s book about a transgender boy, in the library. Read or listen in entirety here:
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Randolph Commissioners Dismiss Entire Library Board After Book Controversy
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The Pavement Education Project promotes responsible use of taxpayer funds, supporting authors’ freedom to write and publish while advocating that limited library budgets prioritize community-aligned collections, excluding materials that could potentially groom or indoctrinate children.
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Texas Library Protects Minors from
Explicit Books—for Now!
The Supreme Court's refusal to hear the Little v. Llano case upholds Llano County's right to remove 17 inappropriate titles from children's access, a win for community standards and child safety.
Sheena Rodriguez, Live Action.org reports on the outcome.
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Texas Library Can Keep Sexually Explicit Material From Minors... for now
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NEGATIVE IMPACTS ON CHILDREN'S
MENTAL HEALTH
The effects of inappropriate material, pornography, and Covid shutdowns have negatively impacted the mental health of the young. Review of statistics show our children have increased sense of hopelessness and persistent feelings of sadness that has increased 40% between 2009-2019 for U.S. high school students.
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Some schools and school media centers in North Carolina are allowing
sexually explicit content to be available to minors that puts
students at HIGHER risk of anxiety, depression, isolation, sexual assault,
and suicide. Why are we allowing this to happen to our children?
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Sixteen states have passed resolutions stating viewing pornography
is a mental health crisis. At a crucial stage in brain development, exposure
to pornography can change neural pathways that permanently affect a child's views of sex, people and real relationships. Sadly, pornography can also cause children to harm other children. When young children see pornography, they tend to practice it on others.​
See if your child's school district is on our website by looking on the book locations page. Explore further by clicking on the links. We do not include books located in classroom libraries or reading sets. You will need to ask teachers and administrators. If you feel as we do, we ask you to call your school, Superintendent, and General Assembly representatives, and sign our petition. This needs to change. We can and must protect our child's innocence.
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RESEARCH ON READING
EROTICA AND RELATIONSHIPS
Little research has been done to learn the effects of reading erotica and viewing erotic images on children or minors. For one thing, no responsible parent would want or allow their child to take part in such a study. For another, presenting such material to a minor is unethical and illegal.
The only research that gives us clues is the data collected on changes within the adult brain after viewing pornography. Additionally, there has been research on reading erotica depicting a sexually dominant woman compared to a sexually dominant man. We will continue to add resources as they become available.
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NORTH CAROLINA SUICIDE AND SELF INJURY DATA
Self-Inflicted Injury Update
