EXCLUSIVE – A Florida school board cut off a dad’s microphone, saying that the content he was reading was “pornography” as he tried to expose the materials he said were in schools.
The Clay County School District dad, Bruce Friedman, told Fox News Digital, “These books are so vile that reading any excerpt that I captured will end this interview.”
“Somebody failed drastically in their mission to protect children,” said Friedman, the president of Florida’s No Left Turn in Education, a group focused on exposing indoctrination in U.S. public schools. “As soon as I announced that I was going to read from some books that parents… found in the public school libraries that are clearly pornographic, [they] had the mic cut off.”
At a June 30 school board meeting, Friedman began to read from one of the books.
“I’m going to read things; if there’s children watching, cover their ears,” he said at the meeting.
One of the books the dad raised at the school board meeting was “Lucky” by Alice Sebold, which entails a story of a college girl who was raped and included details of the attack. The Destiny Discover online library software in Fleming Island High School and Orange Park High School in Clay County included the title “Lucky.”
“I’m going to stop you right there, sir,” Friedman was told. “Turn off his microphone, please.”
“Why?” Friedman asked.
“The problem is, sir, that these meetings are broadcast, there are people at home that are watching it on YouTube. There are people that are watching it on community television. Are you going to listen? Or are you going to run your mouth?”
The dad was told by the school board that he would not be allowed to read “pornography” on the broadcast, as it violated the law.
“There are federal and state laws that prohibit you from saying the things that you’re getting out to say on television. There are state laws that prohibit in federal communications laws that prohibit you from publishing these things to a child. You don’t have the ability at this point to determine who’s watching the television show. And for you to say, ‘everybody cover your ears’ just doesn’t cut it,” the dad was told.
Friedman then protested, stating he would want the floor back.
“You’ll get it back, but you’ll get it back to talk about something besides reading pornography into a public television set,” the dad was told.
Fox News Digital reached out to the school board but did not immediately receive a response.
At one point, Friedman went up to one of the school board members to put the triboard poster he created right in front of him.
