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  • District, activists settle 'Huck Finn' dispute

    11/01/2007 10:30:23 AM PDT · by VRWCmember · 53 replies · 152+ views
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram ^ | 11/01/2007 | JESSAMY BROWN
    HALTOM CITY -- The Birdville school district superintendent will apologize in writing to a student offended by a lesson on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and teachers will get cultural sensitivity training. Those were the agreements reached Wednesday after a 90-minute meeting between school officials, 17-year-old Ibrahim Mohamed, his parents and a coalition of activists offended by the teacher's repeated use of a racial slur that is in the text of the classic 1884 Mark Twain novel. The school district has removed the book from the Richland High School student's class and has allowed him to enroll in a different...