Just a warning, this episode contains descriptions of anti-LGBTQ harassment

and a discussion of suicide.

If you or a loved one are struggling, you can find resources in the episode description.

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I think we're all just really scared.

I think you are terrified.

And I wish I could take that away.

I do. I can't.

It's Friday, October 8th, 2021.

Less than two months into the new school year at the Carroll Independent School District in South Lake.

And if you ask some folks, things have been going great.

The Dragon Football Team is undefeated, about to embark on another run at a Texas State Championship.

And with kids back in class full time and no more mask mandates,

it feels to many in town like the pandemic might finally be in the rearview mirror.

But on this afternoon, Carroll teachers have big concerns about something else happening in the district.

So, what's important to us, how do you informationally have right now,

is that classroom libraries can not be used until they have been read.

So this overspread.

They're at a staff meeting with a school district administrator explaining why they're afraid for their jobs.

And one of them is secretly recording on a cell phone.

Earlier that week, the Carroll School Board had voted to

reprimand a fourth grade teacher after a parent complained about the presence of a book in her

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