Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Parents blast Dearborn, Michigan school board for 'sexually explicit books' at heated meeting
foxnews.comTensions heated up at a school board meeting in a suburb of Detroit when parents blasted "sexually explicit" books in the school library.
Dearborn Public Schools held a meeting on Thursday to address parents’ concerns over books and curriculum. This meeting came after a tumultuous school board meeting on Monday was cut short due to a crowd of rowdy parents taking issue with how the district decides if a book is appropriate for the school library.
The first parent to speak in front of the board called books included in the school library "inappropriate." Parents and educators spoke out in support or against a transgender student policy at school board meeting (Fox News Digital) The new book policy, implemented by the Dearborn school district earlier in October, allows parents to opt their children out of certain books.
But some parents took issue with this approach. Jeff Saleff questioned why the burden was on parents to find books they disapproved of, "My biggest concern is why is the burden on the parent to find these books?
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