I thought I was the only person who went to different schools with famous people at the same time.
You're not the only one....I was just trying to give some perspective in the timeline of relative sophistication of high school protocols, then and now. Even Hillary at that time would probably not have objected to our use in a school play of the word from John Brown's Body. Political Correctness was in its infancy 42 years ago---and I think the real issue in this story has more to do with reading out loud , even in the not-terribly-tender circumstances of adolescence, in the company of all-white peers. It would make just about ANYONE uncomfortable. This teacher seems to have an agenda that is a bit reckless, or else she just didn't think things through. When the teacher is that stupid, it tends to force equally stupid school boards or superintendents to buckle and cave in to a SINGLE complainer, rather than dissect the social nexus of the situation and figure out why it didn't work. Everyone loses when this happens.