Posted on 01/26/2022 4:47:10 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda
Washington school board removes ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ from curriculum due to racial sensitivity
A school board outside of Seattle voted to stop requiring students to read an iconic novel about racism and injustice in the Jim Crow-era Deep South.
The Mukilteo School Board approved a resolution to remove “To Kill a Mockingbird” from its 9th-grade curriculum after complaints it was racially insensitive, according to Fox News.
The move reportedly had the support of the district’s superintendent.
The 1960 Harper Lee novel about a black man falsely accused of raping a white woman would still be found in the school library, and teachers could still assign the fictional classic it if they chose, according to the article.
Parents, students and teachers overwhelmingly spoke out against requiring students to read the book at a board meeting Monday night, the outlet said.
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Orwell was on our reading list when I was in high school--as was Dostoevsky, Dickens, Melville, Hawthorne and Shakespeare. To Kill a Mockingbird would not have had enough literary gravitas to make it onto the list.
However, that was a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away--long before the curriculum went woke.
***“To Kill a Mockingbird” from its 9th-grade curriculum***
I was reading adult literature (not porn) back in 1960-1964 High school.
I will admit I have not read TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD but have many others.
We are becoming a nation of Fainthearts and snowflakes.
Actually, this book describes today’s Democrats: nonwhite people need them for everything, because nonwhite people are too stupid to do things for themselves. Subtle racism.
I am old enough to remember when it was self-identified Christians who wanted to ban books like To Kill a Mockingbird from school curriculum. The MSM would mock these people as ignorant and uptight.
It was in the curriculum in the first place to promote “civil rights”. Nut it contains the word “n****r” so out it goes. Because we’re so much more enlightened now. /sarc
insane
That particular Washington restaurant makes an appearance in the movie “Ghost World”; if you like ‘small movies’ that’s one definitely worth seeing.
The same with Huckleberry Finn. Because a particular word is frequently used by the author, racism is assumed by the same fools. But it is a commentary on the evils of slavery and racism. In fact, Nigger Jim, the runaway slave is a heroic figure, helping and protecting Huck.
If Gregory Peck’s interpretation of him is true to the book, I do not think you can find a better interpretation of the timeless integrity people should be pursuing. In describing her father to Scout, a neighbor identifies him as a critical part of the moral fabric that holds their town together.
His and later generations that reached adulthood through the 50’s were willing to take on civil rights when it had limited popularity. In that regard, Presidents like Truman (integration of the military) and Eisenhower (sending 101th Airborne to Little Rock) did more to fight for civil rights than Johnson did at the tipping point when Martin Luther King reached prominence. Remember too that Eisenhower proposed a civil right act that was defeated by the “Solid South” (Democrat).
These people who want to eradicate ageless expressions of moral authority adopt selected, peculiar symbols of racism which grant them immediate popularity. They are often the so-called Snowflakes and Buttercups, begat by the Woodstock generation, that achieve self-actualization through moral exhibitionism and militant self-absorption.
Rod Steiger played Gillespie in the film, Carroll O’Connor played the role in the TV series.
Wow...I never knew there was a film. Thanks
Really? Thanks! I had never heard of the place until a friend in Portland told me about it. I was shocked. We never had anything so horribly racist down South.
And I do like “small movies”. I will look it up!
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