"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
madison_rogue on October 14th, 2017 at 14:57 UTC »
From the original article.
What I find most disturbing is the ease at which the Biloxi school board pulled the book from the reading list based on this type of complaint.
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.