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[quote=Anonymous]Book banning you say?

[twitter]https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1721105330648633360[/twitter]

A group of progressive teachers fought to “prohibit” Harper Lee’s novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” from being assigned in classroom curriculum amid left-wing criticism of parents protesting sexually explicit books in school.

The four teachers, according to The Post, “launched a years-long quest to prohibit any teacher in the largely liberal Mukilteo School District from assigning ‘Mockingbird.’ And it started with a formal book challenge in late 2021 — the first in 20 years, and the first ever to come from teachers.”

“To Kill A Mockingbird centers on whiteness,” the teachers wrote in their formal challenge to the book being required in the school curriculum, also claiming that “it presents a barrier to understanding and celebrating an authentic Black point of view in Civil Rights era literature and should be removed.”

A committee eventually voted in favor of removing the book from the ninth-grade required list for the school district, while still keeping it on the approved novels list, a decision eventually supported by the school board.

The outcome was not entirely to the satisfaction of the teachers who pushed to oust the book completely.

“Each said it’s a good thing all freshmen no longer have to read the book,” The Post wrote. “Each said they think students will be harmed because the book remains as a teaching option.”[/quote]

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