The fact is that you have zero idea what these folks politics are so you're dead in the water there. You have no idea who (or their politics) established the book review policy at that school or when. The books in question have been temporarily taken out of circulation until a decision has been made as to the ultimate disposition of said books. Maybe they will be banned, who knows but I seriously doubt it. If you don't know what a book ban is then look it up. Perhaps you could lighten up on the right wing blogs so you wouldn't look like such a fool for bringing this trivial garbage here.
I can make a highly educated guess. Educators are overwhelmingly liberal. Teachers unions are overwhelmingly liberal. Political correctness is ONLY liberal. So I am comfortable in assuming liberals decided to remove these books.
No where in the article that I posted does it say "temporary." If you have evidence to the contrary, please provide it.
Virginia schools ban ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ ‘Huckleberry Finn’ for racial slurs
The decision to remove “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain and “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee came after a parent filed a complaint, WAVY reported. The parent cited excessive racial slurs as the reason for wanting the books banned, Superintendent Warren Holland told the news station.
The parent, whose son is biracial, said that her concerns are “not even just a black and white thing.”
“I keep hearing, ‘This is a classic, This is a classic,’ … I understand this is a literature classic. But at some point, I feel that children will not — or do not — truly get the classic part — the literature part, which I’m not disputing,” she said at a Nov. 15 school board meeting. “This is great literature. But there (are so many) racial slurs in there and offensive wording that you can’t get past that.”
The parent said her son, who was reading “Huckleberry Finn” for a high school assignment, couldn’t get past a certain page in that story on which the N-word appeared seven times.
A racial slur appears 219 times in “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and 48 times in “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
“So what are we teaching our children? We’re validating that these words are acceptable, and they are not acceptable by (any) means,” the parent said, also noting psychological effects language has on children. “There is other literature they can use.”
Both books mock bigotry. Yet, this superintendent apparently succumbed to stupidity.
