Rep. Adam Thomas said the task force was needed to shed more transparency on school library materials. (Rachel Mipro/Kansas Reflector)
TOPEKA — Though he wouldn’t name the specific books, Rep. Adam Thomas knows objectionable material lurks on the shelves of Kansas’ public school libraries.
“Certain assignments, certain books in the library, certain descriptions in the book, certain material inside the books, a lot of the emails I got around the subject pretty much confirmed our concerns that these things are in the schools,” Thomas said. “And we’ve gotten document after document in interim committees that show material like this is getting into our schools.”
Though the Olathe Republican said dozens of examples sprung to mind, he wouldn’t name these materials — or why the Legislature needs to create a task force to categorize them by appropriateness.
In a Wednesday interview with Kansas Reflector, he gave a hint of the sort of material that was bothering him: “It’s been in your paper before.”