The Virginia board of education has rejected a proposal that would allow parents to ban “sexually explicit” books assigned to their children. (Such a ban would include The Diary of Anne Frank, Romeo and Juliet, and Toni Morrison’s Beloved.)

“We are addressing this by saying we are not going to address the sexually explicit issue in the classroom and we are going to rely on local policy to deal with those issues,” a board member, Daniel Gecker, told the Richmond Times.

It all began with a three-year campaign by Laura Murphy, a parent who complained about her son being assigned Toni Morrison’s Beloved to read for an Advanced Placement English class. Governor Terry McAuliffe stopped a similar bill last April before this bill was pushed through to the board of education.

Ahead of the meeting, members of the National Coalition Against Censorship warned the Virginia board of education that the proposal “would effectively create a parental consent requirement for all students, including some who are not minors, to read educationally valuable materials that contain some sexual references.” You can read their full rebuttal on the organization’s blog.

This isn’t the first time Virginia has been at the center of a battle about books in schools. In December 2016, parents attempted to ban To Kill a Mockingbird and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for racist content.

Related reading: In October, Paul Ringel argued in an opinion piece for The Atlantic that banning books “often end up marginalizing the lives and experiences of many young readers, rather than protecting them.”

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