A South Carolina school district is facing a controversy over allegations that a school library concealed its online book catalog to prevent parents from seeing material that is inappropriate for children. The move suggests another effort to influence young children without the knowledge and consent of their parents.

At the heart of the controversy is the discovery of the librarians’ conduct by the local Moms for Liberty chapter, headed by Carly Carter.

At least one school library in a South Carolina school district restricted access to its online card catalog in order to hide “critical race theory books” from parents, internal documents obtained by the parental rights group Moms for Liberty show.

The school district claims that it required all schools in the district to unlock their catalogs at the beginning of the school year, but the Moms for Liberty leader says at least one catalog remained blocked as late as Feb. 12.

“Instead of listing these books as available in the library, they are making a conscious decision to include them in curriculum read aloud in class so parents don’t know,” Carly Carter, chair of the Anderson County Moms for Liberty chapter, told The Daily Signal in a written statement Wednesday. Carter’s Freedom of Information Act request turned up the documents.

“What’s most insulting here is that their intention is to cut parents out,” Carter added. “They want to expose children to a social curriculum that they don’t want their parents to know anything about. That’s appalling.”

“We had to remove our card catalogs from online, so parents can’t scour it for critical race theory books (sigh),” Jennifer Chesney, the librarian at Powdersville High School in Powdersville, South Carolina, wrote in a March 2022 email.

Other internal communications within the district expose a distinct disdain for parents and their right to know what their children are learning.

Heather Loy, a librarian at Wagener-Salley High School, insisted in an email that “parents should only be allowed to have a say in THEIR children’s access not what is provided to all students access” and argued that “Parents should not be included in collection development.”

A spokesperson for the Anderson School District One told The Daily Signal that the district collaborates with parents when deciding what content is allowed in libraries.

Apparently, the librarians in question did not receive that particular memo. Their conduct is a brazen violation of parental rights. The emails that were obtained reveal an effort to push progressive politics onto students at the school while making sure parents don’t find out about it.

This is what is happening all across the country, and it is not only affecting blue states. Much of the indoctrination is occurring in states governed by Republicans, which shows just how deep this problem runs.

Ever since parents started speaking out about critical race theory and the introduction of progressive views on sexuality and gender identity in the classroom, members of school staff have been coming up with new ways to hide their efforts from the public.

In California, a school created a covert LGBTQ club for students. Its staff members deliberately kept the existence of the club from parents, who ended up finding out anyway. In America, schools are moving from education to indoctrination, especially those run by the government.

Those supporting these policies argue that they are necessary for promoting inclusivity. However, it is clear that this is not simply about ensuring that LGBTQ students are accepted. It is about influencing young minds to embrace this ideology using the school system.