"To Kill a Mockingbird" is being removed from a junior-high reading list in a Mississippi school district.
The Sun Herald reports that Biloxi administrators pulled the novel from the 8th-grade curriculum this week. School board vice president Kenny Holloway says the district received complaints that some of the book's language "makes people uncomfortable."
Published in 1960, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee deals with racial inequality in a small Alabama town.
A message on the school's website says "To Kill A Mockingbird" teaches students that compassion and empathy don't depend upon race or education. Holloway says other books can teach the same lessons.
The book remains in Biloxi school libraries.
Mayo_Whales on October 14th, 2017 at 15:48 UTC »
"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." - Ray Bradbury
Deomon on October 14th, 2017 at 14:46 UTC »
I’d be concerned if it didn’t make people uncomfortable.
RainyDayRose on October 14th, 2017 at 14:25 UTC »
The whole idea is that it is supposed to make people uncomfortable. Students will never learn if they are never challenged.