[LINK] "To Ban a Mockingbird"
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rfmcdonaldAm I supposed to like school censorship of thought-provoking and critically acclaimed books?
What, Bow goes on to ask, is the good in excluding a book that confronts racism in all of its nastiness head on from a school curriculum?
The Toronto District School Board has been asked to review To Kill a Mockingbird after receiving a complaint from a parent of a student at Malvern Collegiate.
It’s important to note that the book has not been banned. The school board, which is ultimately responsible to the parents, has received a complaint and has an obligation to respond. There is no indication that the book will be banned, and earlier Margaret Atwood’s A Handmaid’s Tale survived a similar challenge. Unfortunately, other school boards in the GTA have also considered bans against To Kill a Mockingbird, and some, like a school in Brampton, has scrapped the book from its grade 10 English course.
What, Bow goes on to ask, is the good in excluding a book that confronts racism in all of its nastiness head on from a school curriculum?
