After a formal complaint by a parent on the textbook “Social Studies Alive!” the St. Charles School Board in Illinois made the decision to ban it.
“The fact that you don’t like those assertions because they don’t reflect your world view doesn’t make them false. And there’s a vast difference between something being untrue and you not wanting to hear it.”
Three cheers for the St. Charles School Board!
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A New Jersey school district has pulled two novels from its required reading list after parents complained about the works. Haruki Murakami‘s Norwegian Wood and Nic Sheff‘s Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines were both pulled from the list after parents complained about their gay sex scenes.
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A Sherlock Holmes book, A Study in Scarlet, was recently banned from a reading list in a middle school in Virginia. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle must be rolling in his grave!
