In a 5-4 vote, the Miami-Dade School Board in Florida rejected two sexual education textbooks for middle and high school students. The Wednesday decision was seen by parents as a victory.
The vote came at the end of a turbulent school board meeting during which more than 40 community members spoke — all but two of whom were proponents of keeping the textbooks in question.
It is worth noting, though, two of the school board members who opposed the books, Christi Fraga and Mari Tere Rojas, told the Miami Herald counting only those who spoke at the meeting is a poor representation of the community members’ actual sentiments toward the books. Rojas and Fraga said they received a great deal of emails from parents who took issue with the textbooks.