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sl8

(13,900 posts)
Thu Oct 26, 2017, 07:21 PM Oct 2017

Mississippi schools back down on 'To Kill A Mockingbird' ban; permission slip required

From http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/10/mississippi_schools_backdown_o.html :

Mississippi schools back down on 'To Kill A Mockingbird' ban; permission slip required
Posted on October 26, 2017 at 7:37 AM
By The Associated Press


A Mississippi school district will resume teaching "To Kill A Mockingbird" after the book was pulled from a junior high reading list.

The Sun Herald reports that Biloxi School District administrators removed the novel from the eighth-grade curriculum earlier this month after the district received complaints that some of the book's language "makes people uncomfortable."

School officials said they'll begin teaching it again in class starting Monday. Students, however, have to ask to participate and return a permission slip signed by a parent.

The school district had become the focus of a national public outcry when it pulled the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee, which deals with racial inequality in a small Alabama town.

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Mississippi schools back down on 'To Kill A Mockingbird' ban; permission slip required (Original Post) sl8 Oct 2017 OP
When I was in Junior High in the late 70's, my Catholic school sent home a letter Chasstev365 Oct 2017 #1
I think that's unconstitutional. lindysalsagal Oct 2017 #2
Which will be kept with your permanent records benld74 Oct 2017 #3
Like 8th graders are going to ask for "extra work". moriah Oct 2017 #4

Chasstev365

(5,191 posts)
1. When I was in Junior High in the late 70's, my Catholic school sent home a letter
Thu Oct 26, 2017, 07:56 PM
Oct 2017

telling our parents not to let us watch the TV show "Soap" because Billy Crtstal's character was gay. And what did we all do because of the letter? WATCH SOAP!

Why don't these morons learn that banning things only draws more attention?

lindysalsagal

(20,733 posts)
2. I think that's unconstitutional.
Thu Oct 26, 2017, 07:59 PM
Oct 2017

If the school has the book, it has to be available to any student. It was paid for by taxes, so it's free to any student.

benld74

(9,910 posts)
3. Which will be kept with your permanent records
Thu Oct 26, 2017, 08:44 PM
Oct 2017

The library doesn’t keep track of who checks out which book.
Now a school will???

moriah

(8,311 posts)
4. Like 8th graders are going to ask for "extra work".
Thu Oct 26, 2017, 08:52 PM
Oct 2017

That's some bullshit right there, a dodge just as much as the "it's still in the library" comment.

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