To me she sounds like a sour tight a$$ who doesn’t understand or much like children and their need to explore their imaginations.
I would guess that she would also ban “The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe”, “The Hobbit” and any works by Shakespeare.
She reminds me of my first grade teacher Miss Hookway who we not so fondly called “Captain Hook” (behind her back of course). She really resembled Emira Gulch from the Wizzard of Oz (another work of literature this woman would probably ban from her classroom.)
True story, Miss “Captain Hook”, gave us an assignment where we had pictures and words and had to color the pictures and indicate whether the vowels were “hard” or “soft”.
The vowel was the letter “A”. One of the pictures was a glass and the word was “water”.
I completed the assignment and got all the answers right and colored all the pictures except the glass of water.
When I turned it in she told me it wasn’t finished because I didn’t color the water blue. I very politely explained that water isn’t blue, it’s clear.
My reward for being smarter than the teacher was to be kept in from recess. Bi-otch!
When I got home from school, I told my father. He said a very wise thing that has stuck with me these 46 years – “Just because someone is in a position of authority, doesn’t mean that person is always right”.
While in (I think) second grade, we had counting exercise (and this I remember like it was yesterday) where we were given a handout and were instructed to color certain numbers of items certain colors. “Color 10 ducks green”, it said (there were 13). I colored 10 green, and to compliment them, I colored the remaining ducks yellow. WRONG! I still remember the shame and humiliation of being pointed out is class as the kid who did it wrong. The teacher never explained to the class what my true transgression was, but led them to believe I had yet to learn to count to 10. I’m 49 years old and still pissed about that.