The Springfield (Vt.) School District is determining whether or not to ban a book for a specific grade level that aims to help children better understand systemic racism and injustice after parents filed complaints over the material’s subject matter and presentation. Jeremy and Christine Desjardins, parents in the district, submitted a formal complaint to Superintendent Zach McLaughlin and Union Street School Principal David Cohn after they became aware that their son’s teacher was presenting the book Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story About Racial Injustice with the help of a YouTube video to the third-grade class during a remote learning session. The book, which was provided by the school’s librarian as an option for teachers to bring into the classroom following recent events centering around police brutality, follows two families—one white, one Black—as they discuss a police shooting of an unarmed Black man in their community.