Students head to class at a Memphis middle school. 2023 Cable News Network. Parents deserve input in their childrens education, but that does not mean they have absolute control. Unlike the monkey trial, this is a serious issue. Consider it a central hub for all of your artist profile pages. 'Maus' Sales Surge After Tennessee School District Bans - Forbes In some states, lawmakers have tried to restrict antiracism training or the teaching of what they call divisive concepts. But on the opposite end, other states are adding ethnic studies courses or incorporating more about people of color into their learning standards. The trialand its subsequent depiction on stage and screen in Inherit the Winddid much to create the impression that white, religious-minded American southerners are, as a writer for The Washington Post once put it, "largely poor, uneducated, and easy to command.". Updated CNN Sans & 2016 Cable News Network. Following the logic of the book banning bill, a parent who had religious beliefs that viewed reading as immoral could deny their child be educated at all. First published in 1994, this . No one should devolve the responsibility for their children's education to the kind of narrow-minded thinkers who've been caught on camera trashing America and the ideals that made the nation great in the first place. Pastor holds bonfire to burn to 'witchcraft' books like 'Twilight' A letter was brought to my attention that was written by the parents of a biracial second-grade boy. The American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom tracks the number of complaints that books receive in schools, tallying up the most frequently challenged books since 1990, as well as classic books that were challenged and banned throughout the 20th century into today. Plazeers?). Last month, the Williamson County school community and one of its sports rivals were shocked by a threatening social media message sent to a Black player by a White one wearing a Klan hood. You would never go into a school in, in Germany and say, oh, why do you teach about Nazi-ism? she said. But in its initial phase, it should be affordable as well. "To Kill A Mockingbird" has been challenged, removed from curricula, and banned in schools across the US due to its use of the N-word and other racial epithets that promote "racial hatred, racial division, [and] racial separation" as well as "adult themes" as Brentwood Middle School in Tennessee put it in 2006.
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