; (B) recognizing that public schools prepare individuals for participation as citizens; (C) recognizing that school boards have important and discretionary functions; (D) acknowledging that among a school board’s functions is a role to play in determining the holdings of a school library; (E) understanding the importance of First Amendment protections in school libraries as centers for voluntary inquiry and the dissemination of information and ideas; (F) understanding that school boards must exercise their discretionary authority in a manner that comports with First Amendment protections and imperatives; and (G) understanding that the exercise of a school board’s role in determining the holdings of a school library may not be done in a manner that is partisan, political, or otherwise aimed at prescribing particular schools of thought or opinion; and (2) will provide equal protection in the conduct of school libraries in compliance with the requirements of the Fourteenth Amendment and nondiscrimination laws. .