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Hancock parent raises concern over books in county school libraries

by Geoff Fox

A Hancock parent spoke to Washington County Public Schools officials during their November 1 Board of Education meeting regarding three books containing sexually explicit material.

Ashley McCusker asked school officials why they didn’t need to follow the same code of conduct that keeps students from accessing or sharing explicit material, and then read passages from each book that contained graphic descriptions of sex acts and sexual conversations between characters.

McCusker read passages…