Albertans respond in record numbers to an Alberta government survey on how school libraries should handle books with extremely graphic depictions of sex

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The numbers are big. Real big. So they should be.

By noon this past Saturday, there were 173,650 responses to an Alberta government survey resulting from the shocking discovery of books involving sex in graphic detail in school libraries, including elementary schools.

That’s closing in on DOUBLE the traffic for a survey on an Alberta pension plan and the numbers just keep going up.

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And remember, the Alberta pension survey was open for over two and a half months.

This story just hit the streets a week ago.

Books explicitly and graphically depicting sexual acts were found in some school libraries in this province, books graphically depicting masturbation, games involving masturbation, use of sexual accessories, child molestation, oral sex.

Yes, it is true. We’re talking about these books in some elementary schools as well as high schools.

Parents complained.

The Alberta government looked into it and it checked out.

The gut reaction of Demetrios Nicolaides, the Danielle Smith government’s education minister and more importantly a dad, was “shock and........

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