After considering a resolution to remove LGBTQ+-related books from the school library during its Oct. 16 meeting, the Quilcene school board devoted part of its Nov. 6 meeting to reading two specific titles listed in the board’s meeting agenda.

Those two children’s picture books were 2022’s “Pink, Blue, and You! Questions for Kids about Gender Stereotypes,” by Elise Gravel and Mykaell Blais, and 2021’s “Sam Is My Sister,” by Ashley Rhodes-Courter and MacKenzie Haley.

At press time, the board had not responded to requests for further information about the previously proposed resolution.

According to a copy of the proposed resolution provided by district staff, the resolution was proposed in response to “the previous elected board” accepting a gift, and purchasing books, for the school district’s library “on sensitive and controversial sexual topics."

“The current board considers these books ought to be introduced under parental supervision,” the proposed resolution read.

The proposed resolution further stated, “Whereas all the above referenced books are available from the Jefferson County Library and through the book mobile,” and “whereas our school focus needs to be on the fundamentals of reading, writing, math, science and civics,” the board would donate the books to the Jefferson County Library, “where the students and families can access them as they see fit.”

Alternately, the resolution proposed that “the books shall be removed from the library and stored in a secure location.”

The resolution further proposed that “no further books be purchased for our private school library on explicit sexual material without board approval.”

The board has yet to hold a vote on the proposed resolution.

During its Oct. 16 meeting, the board opened the floor to public comment on the proposed resolution before an online disruption by a Zoom meeting participant caused the board to shut down the Zoom broadcast portion of the meeting.