Jessica Richardson, a research assistant with the Massachusetts Family Institute, says the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), which sponsors this day, is recommending four books that few parents would want their kids reading.
"'Felix Ever After' … is a pervasively profane book," she gives as an example. "It has hundreds of F words in it and drug-abusing teens that are sexually active. That's basically what the plot of the story is."
The National Day of Reading is backed by the progressive activist HRC through its Welcoming Schools Initiative and is promoted by both the American Association of School Librarians and the American Library Association.
According to HRC, Welcoming Schools offers educators and youth-serving professionals training, lesson plans, booklists, and resources to promote LGBTQ+ and "gender-inclusive" content.
"In other words, this project is a vehicle for pushing a progressive sexual agenda into schools, using teachers and school librarians to do it," Richardson submits.
She says parents need to find out whether the National Day of Reading is happening at their school, and if it is, she encourages them to keep their child home, especially if the school does not allow them to opt out.
"This is another example of things that we see in our society that sound like something benign, something that is not harmful, and it's just another good reminder that we unfortunately cannot take most things at face value anymore, especially in the public schools," she laments.
Richardson believes schools are exercising more caution this year, but it is more with advertising than it is with what they are doing.
