Garrett Jones, the assistant principal at the Terwilliger Elementary School in Florida, admitted that he thinks it’s appropriate for students in kindergarten through fifth grade to read a book about pornography and dirty magazines in school.
The board hearing took place in January but it gained more attention after Libs of TikTok shared a clip of it Friday.
The hearing was about the book “Melissa” (formally published as “George”) that’s available in the Alachua County Public School District elementary campuses. The book is about a transgender 4th grader.
Susan Seigle, the school’s attorney, insisted the book didn’t have any pornographic content but Dr. Crystal Marull, a mother and a professor at the University of Florida with a masters degree in education, who did the primary questioning of Vice Principal Jones, disagreed.
During Jones’ time as a…
