The Banned book law is that no district school or charter school in Itah can provide books for students that contain “Sensitive materials”. “Sensice materials” means books that constituted pornographic or indecent material. This means schools can’t have these books in libraries or classrooms. Teachers can’t provide these books for students, if teachers were to provide these books for students they would lose their teacher licence.This bill was created in 2022 and was run by Ken Ivory. The bill was passed and signed on March 18, 2024. This law will start affecting schools on July 1 of 2024. Teachers will have to read and make sure any books they have in their class arent going against the law. They argued that this bill needed to be created for more “uniformity” across.

Mrs.England (12 grade english teacher)

Mrs.Englands says this law will impact Cyprus in a bad way. It would limit student access to quality literature. It would also limit teachers to book choices for their lessons. If a teacher brings a bool which she says no teacher would but if a teacher would they would lose their teacher license. “Losing their teacher license would mean for them to lose their job and health and retirement benefits” she says. She personally feels like this law wasn't thought out. She bought a class library with books which she will now have to get rid of and rely on the school library books. She says that there are books not appropriate for elementary schools but are appropriate for High school students.

William Walden (Librarian) 

Prevent books from being read in the library and classroom. Big impact will come from these books taken from classroom instruction. students will not be able to experience it again. “The largest impact will likely come from those books that are pulled from classroom instruction as students will not get the experience they would have had.  Again, how good or bad that is depends on the quality of experiences students will be missing out on versus the replacement experiences they will receive by either a different book or a different approach, or both.  It will have some impact regarding the school library as those books won't be as conveniently available to students, though students typically have fairly convenient access to local public libraries that are not affected by this law.” “Teachers that use books in their classes that will be pulled from schools will have to discard their curricula they have built for those specific books and either adapt them for different books or discard them altogether and create new curricula.  This type of impact also varies depending on the depth and breadth of the developed curriculum that is being changed or discarded, and the amount of rebuilding that takes place for differing instructional materials.” “I understand many of the frustrations being expressed by teachers and librarians alike.  It can be highly disappointing when a book you esteem highly and believe is a valuable educational asset is no longer available to students.  At the same time, I also understand the desire and need for age-appropriate censorship for minors.  This is not the same as general censorship or outright book-banning and should not be confused as such.  Students who really want to can get a hold of any materials that are removed from schools by this law.  Having said that, it is debatable on whether this particular law is an effective way to administer age-appropriate censorship, as there was another law passed the previous year that attempted to address the same thing.  The difference between the two is that the new law removes books from schools based on the objective presence of specific content, and the previous law considers the work as a whole before removing books from schools.  The law definitely sets a standard on content available in schools, and schools will adapt.”