11-Year-Old SILENCES School Board As He Reads From DISTURBING Book Found In School Library — Transcript

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1. 0:00hi my name is Knox a jack uh I'm 11
2. 0:02years old and I go to Windham Middle
3. 0:04School I'm a sixth grader I was in the
4. 0:07library and
5. 0:09this book was on a stand I'd like to
6. 0:10read you a page
7. 0:12my back over my hips as I asked if we
8. 0:15should take off take our clothes off and
9. 0:18he's saying yes before I finish my
10. 0:20sentence he's pulling off my t-shirt
11. 0:22laughing when I can't undo his shirt
12. 0:24buttons he's undoing my belt I'm
13. 0:26reaching into his bedside drawer for a
14. 0:28condom we're kissing again we're rolling
15. 0:31over obviously you can see where this is
16. 0:33going I don't know if it's because we're
17. 0:35feeling especially emotional or just
18. 0:37tired or these past couple of weeks have
19. 0:40been too much but this reminds me so
20. 0:43much of the first time we had sex we
21. 0:45were both terrified and the
22. 0:47whole thing was kind of terrible because
23. 0:49we didn't know what we were doing but it
24. 0:52was good too so good because we were a
25. 0:55mess of emotions and we were scared and
26. 0:58excited and everything felt new so this
27. 1:01sort of thing just sort of feels like
28. 1:03that Nick touches me like he's scared at
29. 1:06any minute
30. 1:07now this book was at my middle school
31. 1:09and it was on a stand when I rented it
32. 1:11out to show my dad it uh the librarian
33. 1:14asked if I wanted more and if I wanted a
34. 1:16graphic novel version
35. 1:26oh boy
36. 1:28so I'm that kid's father okay good I was
37. 1:32asking for you yeah I'll take another
38. 1:34three minutes so that's my son okay okay
39. 1:3711 years old and went to his library and
40. 1:41found that
41. 1:42by the entry door
42. 1:45of our library this is the smut that he
43. 1:48is finding all right I don't care
44. 1:50whether it's gay straight bisexual
45. 1:53whatever the terms are for all this
46. 1:56stuff doesn't need to be at our school
47. 1:59doesn't need to be at my 11 year old's
48. 2:01library and then as far as genderqueer
49. 2:05I've got a son in the high school as
50. 2:07well and this is We Know It All
51. 2:11right we do not need to be having
52. 2:13literature that's showing boys how to
53. 2:16suck dick all right this is a very very
54. 2:20frustrated about it okay and you may
55. 2:23think that schools know the best for our
56. 2:25children you know who know the best for
57. 2:26our children the parents and if you
58. 2:29remember this I was here last year
59. 2:32talking about masks and I even offered
60. 2:35you
61. 2:36proper usage for a mask and you said I
62. 2:40was bullying and you know what I would
63. 2:41like to say to everybody right now
64. 2:44where are we a year later and what has
65. 2:46changed
66. 2:48why you don't wear your masks right now
67. 2:51so what has changed
68. 2:53in the medical field
69. 2:56that is showing you that you don't have
70. 2:57to wear masks now
71. 2:59so like I said listen to the parents I
72. 3:03can tell you right now I don't work
73. 3:04anymore and I will be more than happy to
74. 3:08focus Lifetime and effort
75. 3:11to the security of my child and children
76. 3:14in this school all right I will be a
77. 3:16thorn in your sides
78. 3:19so I just want you to be aware of what
79. 3:23you've woken
80. 3:24okay
81. 3:25I'm sure that a lot of you guys are fine
82. 3:28and great people and have nothing but
83. 3:31the best intentions for our children
84. 3:34but by the fact that this has to take
85. 3:37four months for a school to get this
86. 3:40book out of the out of the library
87. 3:42is ridiculous the parents are here right
88. 3:45now and they're speaking and you need to
89. 3:47listen and do something about it quickly
90. 3:51thank you
91. 3:52[Applause]