Two heroes who stood their ground
I have an “education hero,” a person who’s little known outside the profession. To me, he showed heroism in a time of crisis. Most of you have never heard of him – superintendent of schools, Island Trees Schools, Long Island in the 1970s. Story began in 1976 when four Island Trees (Long Island) School board members attended an upstate New York conference sponsored by the Parents of New York, United (PONYU). Considered an ultra-conservative organization, PONYU advocated censoring books that did not “meet their standards.” PONYU published a list of 33 books that “should not be on the shelves of school libraries.”
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