By LAURA PARNABY FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
Published: 18:49 GMT, 11 February 2025 | Updated: 19:19 GMT, 11 February 2025
A furious woman showed up at a public meeting to read an obscene passage aloud from a book that she claimed is included in a Texas school curriculum.
Bonnie Wallace has blasted the decision by Allen Independent School District to include sexually explicit books including a novel called Push by author Sapphire.
Speaking at a Board of Trustees meeting last month, Wallace, who does not live in the Allen ISD area, claimed some of the books included in the school board’s curriculum have been banned in Texas jails.
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has ‘10,800 books that they prohibit criminals from possessing in prisons’, Wallace said.
‘You have a lot of those books in your schools,’ she added, before reading an excerpt from Push, which is also named Precious in some reprints.
‘She looked at me like I said I want to suck a dog’s d*** or some s***’, Wallace read from the first extract.
‘Miss Lichtenstein looked at me like I had three arms and a bad odor out my p**** or something,’ she read from another section of the book.
‘This is my second baby from my daddy. It’s going to be retarded too. This time I know mam know… that stinky hoe give me to him…’
Bonnie Wallace (pictured) has blasted the decision by Allen Independent School District to include sexually explicit books including a novel called Push by author Sapphire
Released in 1996, Push (pictured right) is the debut novel by American author Ramona Lofton (pictured left), who is better known by her pen name Sapphire.
Wallace went on to read a graphic description of sexual incest from the same book, before asking: ‘Why are the minds of hardened criminals better protected than minors in Allen ISD?’
Allen ISD presides over 22 schools in the northern Dallas–Fort Worth suburb, including the largest high school in Texas.
Allen High School Principal Matt Russell
Along with Allen High School, the agency oversees one prekindergarten, 16 elementary schools, three middle schools, and one freshman center.
It’s unclear which school curriculums the book is listed on. DailyMail.com has contacted Allen ISD for comment.
Push is the debut novel by American author Ramona Lofton, who is better known by her pen name Sapphire, released in 1996.
It follows the life of an obese, illiterate, 16-year-old girl living in Harlem, New York, with her abusive mother, after being impregnated twice by her rapist father.
The novel was made into a 2009 film called Precious, which won two Academy Awards.
Allen High School’s principal, Matt Russell, announced last year that he would be retiring this summer after five years with the school and 28 years with the district.
‘It has been an incredible honor to serve as the principal of Allen High School and to be part of the Allen ISD family for nearly three decades,’ Russell said in a news release.
‘I’m immensely proud of what we’ve accomplished together and the culture of excellence we’ve maintained and enhanced over the years.’