PA School District Bans “Girls Who Code” Book Series

The Guardian reports:

A school district in Pennsylvania has banned the Girls Who Code book series for young readers, according to an index of banned books compiled by the free expression non-profit Pen America. The series is in partnership with Girls Who Code, a non-profit that runs computer coding clubs

The CEO and founder of Girls Who Code, Reshma Saujani, expressed her anger over the series being banned. “We use these stories to teach kids to code,” Saujani told Business Insider. “It felt very much like a direct attack on the movement we’ve been building to get girls coding.

Saujani said that the group Moms for Liberty, a conservative non-profit formed in 2021 that has been pushing book bans through local chapters across the country, was responsible for the Central York district’s ban on the series.

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This series was our labor of love, our commitment to our community to make sure that girls — all girls — see themselves as coders. You cannot be what you cannot see, and this was our effort to get more girls, girls of color interested in coding.@jowhittemore @GirlsWhoCode pic.twitter.com/C23VTgKyxZ

— reshmasaujani (@reshmasaujani) September 24, 2022

Hey @GOP book-banning asshats: I get it that you ban Handmaids Tale as it *gives a roadmap to your strategy*, but banning Girls Who Code is just embarrassing for you.

The first programmer, and the person who coined the term Software Engineering were WOMEN, a fact you can’t ban. pic.twitter.com/qLrF8NjBpv

— Seamus Blackley (@SeamusBlackley) September 25, 2022

There is no sex in Girls Who Code, so either it’s the mere presence of minorities or the though that girls might not be dependent on a man that Moms for Fascism have a problem with. https://t.co/LCVPe10rDX

— This ain’t it, bro (@GetaGripDumbass) September 25, 2022