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Originally Posted by dellinger63
I'd love to read the 12-page complaint letter to the school board written by Kimiyutta Parson, the mother who started all this. An 11th grader is a junior in high school. Meanwhile a school-board affirms her lunacy with the crazy decision to ban it. This has SNL skit written all over it.  |
It makes me very skeptical about the education this parent had- did this woman not read anything in high school? Did the school board members? My junior year of college, a parent challenged
The Catcher in the Rye in my old school district- we were assigned it before the start of 9th grade, and most of the entire high school read it at some point in the curriculum. But a parent wanted it removed. My former English teacher told me the head of the school board made a passionate statement about how that book had helped him through very difficult times when he was a teenager and refused to take it out of the curriculum. It was really moving- school officials really thinking about what is best for the kids, and remembering when they were kids themselves.