Eighty books in high school library stacks are corrupting students with tales of abortion, homosexuality and atheism. That's according to a West Palm Beach mother who has appealed to the school board to remove the books from the shelves of Dreyfoos and Royal Palm Beach high schools.Laura Lopez has been fighting since September to ban these books that she says "promote sin and lies."
Committees at both schools have already shot down her request. So has Superintendent Art Johnson. On Wednesday, she will ask the full school board to intervene.
Palm Beach County School District staff can't recall any book challenges reaching the school board in at least seven years.
Lopez admits she hasn't read a single one of the objectionable books cover-to-cover.
In her appeal, she quotes scripture and blames the Columbine school shootings, drugs, bullies, teenage pregnancy and other ills on what she considers the removal of God from schools.
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