Parents have sued St. Francis Area Schools on the behalf of eight students, alleging the district unlawfully bans books based on the ideas or stories they contain. Last fall, the northwestern Anoka County school district voted to update its library materials policy to primarily use ratings from the anonymous reviewer website BookLooks.org, which seeks to warn parents of “objectionable content” in books. BookLooks is associated with a former member of the influential conservative parental rights group Moms for Liberty. The lawsuit asks the judge to declare the school’s policy illegal and to reverse the ban on dozens of bestselling books like “The Kite Runner" and “The Bluest Eye.” The district’s policy “is antithetical to the values of public education and encouraging discourse. Perhaps more importantly, the policy violates the Minnesota Constitution and state law,” according to the suit. Tap the link in our bio to read the full report by Zoë Jackson. 📸 reneejonesschneider/The Min...