YES! Hanover (Va) Girl Scout wins highest award for BANNED BOOK NOOKS and calls out the county at the ceremony

[underpants]

The photo is hilarious. Hanover can be really really RED. After the appointed School Board renamed Lee-Davis High school (I was shocked) to Mechanicsville High several of the Board were replaced. Good for her.



After being honored on Wednesday, Lindley took to the podium thanking the board for their “censorship” of her Gold Award, the highest award within the Girl Scouts organization. She said the summary of her work commended at the meeting did not match the description she submitted.

Her summary detailed her creation of “Banned Book Nooks,” which granted kids across the county access to pieces of literature the school board removed from school shelves. Her work also involved the creation of a “Free-To-Read” app, which educates users about banned books and where to find them. The board chose to leave out the word “banned” and limited describing pieces of Lindley’s project, effectively, in Lindley’s words, censoring her award.

“Things need to change in Hanover County to reverse the tide of book bans,” Lindley said. “Our school board banned books because of a fundamental ignorance of the importance of celebrating diverse perspectives.”

https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/hanover-county/girl-scout-fights-back-says-hanover-censored-project-during-gold-award-recognition/

[PittBlue]

1. Wow! What a brave and brilliant young woman!❤️

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. Adding links to the stories at WTVR, he RT-D, and the DP about this

https://www.google.com/search?q=kate+lindley+girl+scout

Girl Scout banned books project censored by Hanover Board of Supervisors: 'It's a sad day'
By: Maggi MarshallPosted at 11:29 PM, Apr 25, 2024 and last updated 11:34 PM, Apr 25, 2024

Girl Scout who created banned book nooks thanks Hanover for 'censored' Gold Award
Sean Jones Apr 25, 2024

Michael Paul Williams: How do you define hypocrisy? Ask the Virginia town that just censored a Girl Scout.
MICHAEL PAUL WILLIAMS Richmond Times-Dispatch Apr 22, 2024

After the Hanover County School Board banned 19 books last June, Kate Lindley launched “Free to Read,” her Girl Scout Gold Award project.

{snip}

“Honestly at first I just started laughing,” recalled Lindley, a senior at Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School who’s headed to Georgia Tech to study computer science.

{snip}

Michael Paul Williams [phone]
[email protected]

[underpants]

3. Boy did I have this story wrong. Yesterday at a Wawa I saw the newspapers in disarray and T-D turned over

I tend to give the papers a look over just to see what’s above the gold. That pic was front and center. It must’ve pissed someone off - like how I used to turn National Enquirers around in 2016.

I’d seen that pic before and thought she was some Hanover County Princess of the Hay Field. Hanover is sort of a white flight refuge for people who think western Henrico has become a little too uh mixed. It’s also become a place for more educated people from the north and elsewhere to find good land prices. I’ve played at the Hanover Country Club a few times and there are some permanent (4x4s set in cement) road signs that have gone from BENGHAZI to RIGGED to whatever. More than one of these signs.

I’m glad I was wrong about her and her story. Good for her. Suck it rednecks especially Herzberg. Fight as they might it is changing. She’s right on all accounts.

[AverageOldGuy]

4. My favorite part is . . .

. . . the Supervisors edited then read aloud her award certificate without references to banned books. So, when she spoke to thank them, she read her full award commendation complete with the words the Supervisors left out them she proceeded to rip them all new assholes by very gently calling out their bullshit. All the while with a slight smile.

Oh, and watch the video at the OP link -- catch her sly side-eye as the doctored version of her commendation is read -- she expected this and she was cocked, loaded, and ready for them. This young lady is an exemplar of who will save this country.

[underpants]

19. Yes. She and the speaker who supported her must've gotten and advance copy

Maggie Walker is the Governor’s school. Very hard to get into. My daughter applied and got in the waiting list. Not bad but I’m kind of glad she didn’t go. They got rid of Valedictorian and other awards not so “everyone gets a trophy” but for health reasons. No one near the top slept the last month or so and I heard a pretty crazy story about a guy sabotaging his work group so he could hurt their ranking.

See my post #3 for background on Hanover. It is changing due to people moving in…some of them.

[orangecrush]

5. KICK

[SalviaBlue]

6. K&R

[sheshe2]

7. Bravo Lindley.

What a brave young woman.

[Wild blueberry]

8. Thank you, Kate Lindley!

Makes me proud to have been a Girl Scout. She is doing genuine service to her community, with creativity, intelligence, and elan. Brava!

[erronis]

9. This type of flagrant abuse by the RW will haunt them for generations to come.

I hope.

From The Daily Progress article:

Asked in an email why he edited Lindley’s proclamation, Herzberg replied:

“Board proclamations are issued with a vote by the Board. Some books that contain porn and sexually explicit content were de-selected from Hanover Public Schools and I support that action. Books with porn and sexually explicit content do not have my support for a Board proclamation.”

Our young people are smarter than these politicians think. They can smell the stench of rank hypocrisy a country mile away. They aren’t fooled by folks spouting platitudes about the Constitution while supporting politicians who forswear their oath to the document as they toss lit matchsticks at the First Amendment.

They can distinguish a political exercise from an educational one.

[MiHale]

10. Good going...truth to power.

[AllaN01Bear]

11. yay. eggscllent. the rs would be the first ones to scream censureship.

congrats on her getting her award .

[Beacool]

12. Bravo!!!

What an intelligent and resourceful young woman.

[lastlib]

13. I think I am in love with this young lady.......

She is brave, brilliant, and just freakin' AWESOME!

[Buzz cook]

14. She fights like a girl

I hope she continues to fight for many years to come.

[Ping Tung]

15. Hurrah for her and freedom of the press.

[ZonkerHarris]

16. Read the whole article at the link. That young lady is awesome.

[jalan48]

17. YES! is absolutely right. Our country needs more Lindleys.

[gulliver]

18. The parent's rights are the most important and they aren't even mentioned.

Parents aren't just ATMs and food and shelter providers. They aren't mentioned in the article at all. There should be a technical answer to this problem. This shouldn't require a random student to enact a trite "hero drama" for the media and showboaters of all political persuasions to feed their egos on.

[Wednesdays]

20. K&R.