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Just realized 'To Kill a Mockingbird' got banned in a school district near me in 2021
I was looking up my local school board's meeting minutes last night and found out this district in Bexar County pulled 'To Kill a Mockingbird' from the 8th grade reading list because of the racial language. What got me is they replaced it with a book about the Holocaust instead, like swapping one heavy topic for another. I grew up reading it in 7th grade back in the 90s and nobody blinked. Has anyone else found a book they thought was untouchable getting pulled in their own town?
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henry_palmer2415d ago
@reese86 did they even let parents speak before the vote?
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Did you check if the school board had public hearings before the vote? Sometimes they bury those decisions in small print, but you can still request the meeting minutes to see who pushed for it.
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