Pat Scales Quotations

There are people who want their kids to read books about gays and lesbians. Therefore, we have an obligation to have those books. We select those books the same way we select all others -- based on their literary merit.

We need to fight them like you would fight a bully. But it takes a lot of courage, and very few people want to go through the bother.

What parent has the right to select for anyone else's child, ... Teaching Banned Books.

There's nothing more important to the school administration than keeping its name out of the news.

There's not a public school out there that doesn't have a mission statement that says it serves all students,