299:“sensitive material” as instructional materials that are pornographic or indecent, colloquially referred to as the “bright line” rule in state code. Shortly after passage of the Bill, a parent of a school-aged child challenged the law, noting that the Holy Bible contained vulgar, sexual and violent content and should, therefore, be likewise removed from public schools. Based on the merits of the challenge, at least one school district has chosen to remove the Bible from their elementary and middle school’s libraries.
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