Students hated ‘To Kill a Mockingbird.’ Their teachers tried to dump it.
11/5/23
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from The Washington Post,
11/3/23:
Four progressive teachers in Washington’s Mukilteo School District wanted to protect students from a book they saw as outdated and harmful. The blowback was fierce.
The fight over “Mockingbird” would spark a rare moment of national political unity, with right-wing critics alleging the district wanted to censor a classic in service of a “woke” agenda — while left-wing detractors insisted teachers were erasing the reality of racism. It would leave the superintendent fielding more than 100 angry phone calls and emails, some librarians wondering what might be challenged next and some teachers scared to assign “Mockingbird” for fear of being labeled racist.
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