Typically, a school district would require book challengers to go through a formal challenge process in which each individual book would be assessed for merit. Instead, five minutes after receiving the demands, Perez agreed to them.
Republicans are usually some combo of ignorant fucking morons, straight up evil, financially motivated, or fascist. Get these people together and it's basically a poker table of grifters conspiring for whatever their awful agenda may be. Add the leveraging of children's education, fear, ignorance on the books themselves.. you've got it.