The Gablers wanted to ban a textbook that referred to future presidents as “he or she.” They demanded the removal of Edgar Allen Poe because he was “too gruesome.” And they objected to math books teaching calculus and trigonometry. Norma Gabler said, “When a student reads in a math book that there are no absolutes, suddenly every value he’s been taught is destroyed. And the next thing you know, the student turns to crime and drugs.”
