The out-of-left-field attack on an online reading platform by Florida’s new education commissioner, Anastasios Kamoutsas , reads like bad fiction.

In a July 23 letter, Kamoutsas issued a veiled threat to any school district using the Beanstack reading platform. He ordered all districts to distribute his letter to parents. It’s divisive, he wrote , “pushing ideology” and “subverting parental rights.”

Lacking in facts, the allegations against Beanstack have the feel of a spun-up story.

The online reading platform catalogs and publishes titles of books, giving parents the opportunity to see them. It encourages reading. No one can access books from the website. Even if a parent argued a book’s title indicated that it should be banned, that would set off a dispute with a school boar

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