{"id":2589,"date":"2023-09-10T15:45:38","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T15:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usapress.info\/?p=2589"},"modified":"2023-09-10T15:45:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T15:45:38","slug":"brave-11-year-old-confronts-school-board-by-reading-smut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usapress.info\/?p=2589","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Brave\u2019 11-Year-Old Confronts School Board By Reading \u2018Smut\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An 11-year-old Mainer named Knox Zajac confronted school board members by reading aloud from \u201csmut\u201d available at the Windham Middle School library, the Maine Wire reported. Most boys his age would be too immature to stand up and defy the adults in power, and that\u2019s what made this encounter so notable.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/taphaps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/composite_16775427226527-640x340.jpg\" alt=\"Knox Zajac\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Knox Zajac read aloud from a book he found in his school library. (Credit: Screenshot)<\/p>\n<p>Young Knox displayed respect and maturity beyond his years as he explained the situation. Like most 11-year-old boys, Knox likes comic books. The librarian at his middle school suggested a graphic novel called Nick and Charlie. He took the book out, and to his surprise, it wasn\u2019t about superheroes or intergalactic space exploration. It was about two boys engaging.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I [checked out Nick and Charlie] to show my dad it, the librarian asked if I wanted more and if I wanted a graphic novel version,\u201d Knox said. He also explained that he found the book \u201con display on a stand\u201d at the school\u2019s library. Knox, still at a tender-enough age that he mispronounced \u201clibrary\u201d without the final \u201cr,\u201d read a brief, sex-drenched passage from Nick and Charlie to school board members, The Blaze reported.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/taphaps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/composite_16775427726155-640x328.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The school board sat in stunned silence as Knox Zajac read aloud from the library book. (Credit: YouTube)<\/p>\n<p>The passage contains a graphic, blow-by-blow description of a sexual encounter between two boys. The passage also contains profanity. After Knox read the passage, his father, Adam Zajac, came to the lectern to offer his thoughts. \u201cListen to the parents,\u201d Adam said, tapping a copy of Gender Queer on the lectern for emphasis. \u201cI will be more than happy to focus my time and effort to the security of my child and children in this school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will be a thorn in your side,\u201d Adam Zajac added. \u201cI just want you to be aware of what you\u2019ve awoken,\u201d he continued. \u201cThe parents are here right now, and they\u2019re speaking. And you need to listen and do something about it quickly,\u201d he concluded, noting that it should not take \u201cfour months\u201d to remove books of this nature from a middle school library.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/taphaps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/composite_16775427393064-640x354.jpg\" alt=\"Knox Zajac\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Adam Zajac addressed the school board after his son\u2019s appearance. (Credit: Screenshot)<\/p>\n<p>Larry Lockman served in Maine\u2019s House of Representatives from 2012-2020 and is the co-founder of the Maine First Project. \u201cThe stone-cold indifference of school board members to 11-year-old Knox\u2019s presentation was telling. In effect, they have enshrined a new state religion in Maine classrooms, in defiance of the First Amendment,\u201d Lockman told The Blaze in a statement. Lockman is offering a training session to equip parents to fight back against \u201canti-American political indoctrination in the classroom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The books that the Zajac father-son duo addressed at the school board meeting are \u201csmut\u201d put forward by \u201cporn pushers,\u201d according to Lockman. \u201cThe bad news is that this sort of depravity is the rule rather than the exception in Maine\u2019s dysfunctional K-12 government-run schools. Meanwhile, academic achievement has flatlined over the past decade and a half,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Windham Maine Parents Fight Back Against School Board - Child Was Exposed To Explicit Material\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/70BLUwQkXdE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnother book in the high school library, Gender Queer, includes graphic depictions of minors engaging in sexual intercourse that could be mistaken for a how-to manual. The age advisory on this book is for readers 18 years of age and older,\u201d Maine Wire reported. \u201cParents want age-appropriate limitations on access to these books \u2014 if they\u2019re to be in the library at all. But most members of the school board disagree, and some community members think the board is taking steps to limit the involvement of parents in public meetings.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An 11-year-old Mainer named Knox Zajac confronted school board members by reading aloud from \u201csmut\u201d available at the Windham Middle School library, the Maine Wire reported. 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