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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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Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)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)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)The library doesnt keep track of who checks out which book.
Now a school will???
moriah
(8,311 posts)That's some bullshit right there, a dodge just as much as the "it's still in the library" comment.