Posted on 02/09/2018 6:48:24 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
DULUTH, Minn. - Students taking English classes in a Minnesota city will no longer have to read two American classics or write reports about them, the Duluth News Tribune reported.
“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and “To Kill a Mockingbird,” which contain racial slurs, will no longer be required reading for students in the Duluth Public School district’s English classes next fall. However, the books are not banned: They will be available in the school as optional reading for students, the News Tribune reported.
The decision comes two months after a Virginia school temporarily banned the two novels after a parent complained that her high school-age son was negatively impacted by the books’ racial slurs. In October, the school board in Biloxi, Mississippi, removed “To Kill a Mockingbird,” which won a Pulitzer Prize for author Harper Lee, from the curriculum of an eighth-grade class, the Sun Herald reported. The school, however, reversed is decision in late October, but required students to get a permission slip from their parents in order to participate in the class, the Sun Herald reported.
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I’ll bet anyone here “Jimmy Has 2 Mommies” is still in that library.....
Have they also removed books like Native Son?
Not good enough. The books must be put into a big pile in the school square and burned.
I guess I escaped having a nascent SJW for a teacher. But: Texas. Possibly.
It would be funny to see a remake of that movie where the Gardner becomes president...and with the clamor to have more minorities in leading roles currently...
It works both ways, liberals!
that her high school-age son was negatively impacted by the books’ racial slurs. “
Little b*tch boy.
And I’m saying that as a total nerd back when I was in high school.
But that was the 20th century when even the black kids in class thought it wasn’t a big deal to read a book over 100 years old with words like that.
Pretty soon, they’ll have to rewrite PC versions of every classic book.
Forgive me for being....”ignorant”....but why isn’t RAP music being banned due to the N-word’s constant usage? Isn’t that offensive and causing mental anquish?
Well, there’s Amazon so anybody can get a book now.
Better get rid of some of Hemingway, Steinbeck, Faulkner, etc.. too.
I wonder how many of these children of delicate sensibilities listen to hip-hop, rap, etc. A few years ago when my son was small, he and I were out for a walk. Some middle-school aged white and hispanic kids in the neighborhood were having a backyard birthday party with loud music. In the time it took us to get out of earshot, we were subject to a barrage of just about every foul word in the book, including the dreaded n-word.
I can’t see any benefit at all in their choice of entertainment. I can see the benefit in their having a chance to read great American literature.
“To Kill a Mocking Bird”? Isnt the whole point of that story a lesson against racial prejudice? And its considered not PC enough now?
Why don’t we just let Canada annex Minisooooota and call it even the Muslims have taken it over anyway.
“She doesn’t even realize that these “offensive” novels are actually powerful anti-racist classics.”
Here’s an analogy: It’s like looking at the windshield of your car. If you just look at the glass, all you’ll see are the dings and chips, bird droppings, mud or ice, and smears, etc. But is you look through the glass, you’ll see the world outside.
In like manner, if all you see in “To Kill a Mockingbird” are the racial smears, then you miss the whole meaning of not killing a mockingbird—Addison Finch, Tom Robinson, Boo Radley are all the mockingbirds that get “killed” in one way or another. Teachers should teach students to look through the glass, not at the glass.
her high school-age son was negatively impacted by the books’ racial slurs.
Unbelievable, they should have expelled the Student.
My old friend was Jim the Slave in the movie, and he was NOT negatively impacted in any way by playing the role.
Of course not. It suggests that some women make false rape accusations.
I graduated from a Catholic high school in 1970. It always seemed that any book that was banned from any public school library could always be found in my high school library.
Better not read the Dictionary too closely.
It literally does have an “offensive” word in it.
In a recent job, I had to work around a lot of inner-city kids. You have no idea how often they call each other the n word!
What did your English teacher think of Blazing Saddles?
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