Rolling Stone Gathers No More Minors
in Kettle Moraine Schools
Kettle Moraine High School students under 18 now have to present written parental permission before the school librarian will bring Rolling Stone magazine out from behind the circulation desk, thanks to a February 3 decision made by the suburban Milwaukee district's superintendent of schools.
In doing so, Sarah Jerome overruled an 8–3 vote taken that same day by the Library Materials Review Committee recommending retention. The superintendent's move “was a compromise I could live with,” complainant Gary Vose told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel February 6. A member of the school board whose daughter attends the high school, Vose had formally requested the reconsideration on January 18, more than a year after he'd first voiced objections to RS being in the collection.
The ACLU of Wisconsin has asked district officials for a copy of all public records related to the decision, the newspaper noted.
Posted February 15, 1999.
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