At the June 2025 Cameron R-1 school district school board meeting, a concerned resident addressed the school board about yet another book. After giving a much needed content warning, Mr. Gilbert reads passages from the book Identical, which is found in the high school library, from the book Identical. The 7 person school board didn’t appear concerned by the content.
The passages Mr Gilbert read includes graphic details of a father grooming and then involving one of his identical daughters in a sex act. Even when those passages were described in medical terms the local Cameron paper refused to publish that letter to the editor. He denied it because it was too graphic.
Here is the video of that address to the board. For those of you who would like to confirm this content is in the book we will provide the Rated Books link to the book Identical.
Here is the video from the Cameron R-1 school districts board of education meeting from December 19, 2023. There are time stamps in the description for the video. There was an update in this video to the ongoing book fight.
Mrs Debbie Cox addresses the Cameron school districts board of education to talk about the sexually explicit books they are making available to students in the school libraries. Some of those books violate Missouri law and statute 573.550, prohibition against schools providing sexually explicit content to minors.