As Iowa K-12 students begin to return to the classroom, they’ll be greeted by a draconian book ban that has already resulted in almost 3,400 books being removed from school library shelves. Iowa schoolchildren are currently safe from reading such filth as George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” and Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings” thanks to the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.
For a moment, though, it didn’t seem like this would be the case.
