Something very shocking happened at the Somerset County Board of Education (SCBOE) meeting on August 18, 2026 where the Somerset Education Association (SEA) union President, Ms. Spencer, who is also employed by Somerset County Public Schools as a Media Specialist, was questioned about false reports and rumors allegedly circulated by the SEA regarding the SCBOE banning and removing books in its Selection of Textbooks and Media Center Materials Policy 500-19 and the false termi

For years, courts across the United States and Maryland recognized that children must be protected from sexual predators and harmful and unnatural behaviors of child sex offenders. In Booksellers v. Virginia (1988), the Supreme Court held that booksellers may be criminally prosecuted for allowing obscene sexual material easily accessible to children "youth" as they called it. Obscene movies with explicit vulgarity and adult content have been identified since 1960s and the nee

Somerset County Public Schools had its policy 500-19 open for public comment for months now, and the only three objections to the policy came from the politically-charged Maryland State Educators Association (MSEA), the ACLU of Maryland, and the Maryland Association of School Librarians. That's right, not one Somerset County citizen. The Maryland State Educators Association has already lost its constitutional argument against parents before the United States Supreme Court in