TKAM has been banned by some schools

They need to read more Kurt Vonnegut. I would have loved that in grade school.


ETA: I understand teachers not wanting to get into "those" conversations in class...in Biloxi. Uncomfortable is an understatement.

First, you should update your thread title because idk if this will get a lot of traffic.

Second,

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Kenny Holloway, vice president of the Biloxi School Board said, “There were complaints about it. There is some language in the book that makes people uncomfortable, and we can teach the same lesson with other books.

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This is a load of BS. Sometimes, literature is supposed to make you uncomfortable. It should challenge you and make you think. To Kill A Mockingbird is a treasure of American literature.

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This is a load of BS. Sometimes, literature is supposed to make you uncomfortable. It should challenge you and make you think. To Kill A Mockingbird is a treasure of American literature.

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truly. that VP's explanation is grounds for immediate dismissal.

How can you "teach the same lesson" (i.e., reading the classic To Kill A Mockingbird) by forgoing reading To Kill A Mockingbird?

It should be top-10 required reading for high schoolers (I read it in middle school, but I am not that ambitious for gov schools these days--edit, I see it WAS 8th-grade reading, which it should be), especially in the deep south. I mean, Dill is FROM Mississippi.

You read this book for many reasons, but not just because it's part of some "lesson." You read it for itself. It is its own lesson.

frick these people in their ignorant ears.

One of my friends made a good point about this. It's perfectly ok for high schoolers to read Romeo and Juliet, which romanticizes suicide, but they can't read To Kill A Mockingbird because some of the language MIGHT make someone uncomfortable. GTFO.

public schools function as government funded daycare centers

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Why are taking books like that away? Seems counterproductive

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It was not removed from the schools.

A black girl and her mother complained so she was given alternate reading material.