Sorting through all the negative messages can be exhausting. Even more so when a candidate or local group is purposely creating a misleading or downright dishonest message to try and sway your vote.

We can’t possibly keep up with all the false claims made on the Internet, and there are many wonderful resources available to understand larger national issues. You can find links to many of them on our Resources page.

Here, we’ll address Lowell School Board-specific messaging that is intentionally designed to mislead or misinform voters. We hope you find these quick examples helpful in understanding some of the charged claims being made.

Issue:
’Bad’ books in Lowell Area Schools libraries

Posted on Facebook 10-8-2022

For the Record:
None of the Adult-Rated books listed in the photo are actually in Lowell School libraries.

You can take our word for it, or you can check for yourself:

Here is a link to each of the Lowell Area Schools libraries

By accessing this link, you can choose the school library you’d like to review and then search their entire collection of books by Author, Title, or Topic. See for yourself.

Additionally, parents can log in and view their child’s entire checkout history. The level of control a parent has over what their child can access via the school library is really quite amazing, and something we should all be proud of. The transparency of this system is to be commended.

If you are a parent interested in learning how to curate your child’s library access, contact the school librarian for assistance. They would be thrilled to help you learn how to use this system.

We honestly don’t understand what the person who wrote that social media message is trying to accomplish. We’re disappointed in any candidate who would take advantage of false claims about the school system to try to win a seat on the board.