Posted on 02/09/2018 6:48:24 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
DULUTH, Minn. - Students taking English classes in a Minnesota city will no longer have to read two American classics or write reports about them, the Duluth News Tribune reported.
“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and “To Kill a Mockingbird,” which contain racial slurs, will no longer be required reading for students in the Duluth Public School district’s English classes next fall. However, the books are not banned: They will be available in the school as optional reading for students, the News Tribune reported.
The decision comes two months after a Virginia school temporarily banned the two novels after a parent complained that her high school-age son was negatively impacted by the books’ racial slurs. In October, the school board in Biloxi, Mississippi, removed “To Kill a Mockingbird,” which won a Pulitzer Prize for author Harper Lee, from the curriculum of an eighth-grade class, the Sun Herald reported. The school, however, reversed is decision in late October, but required students to get a permission slip from their parents in order to participate in the class, the Sun Herald reported.
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The tyranny of the minority!
This PC stuff is killing our country. When will people & institutions STOP giving in to one or two unhinged people???
Libtards get so tiresome. Everyone who has ever actually read Huck Finn knows the character in question, Jim, is the ONLY truly good human being in the book. I get so sick of these people.
I wonder what tripe it was replaced with (skimmed article, didn’t see it mentioned).
This is why I love homeschooling - we read the classics early and often.
Or maybe she's the one who's "impacted." Knowwhatimean?
What is it with the Scandinavian brain
So when does the Left actually start burning books they don’t like?
Surprised that they didn’t put 1984 down on the list.
We had Uncle Tom’s Cabin handed out as the required book to read. I doubt if more than 10-percent of the kids read the book....the rest all read some two-page summary that someone got from their relative in college.
It is the school admin who are idiots. It is their responsibility to provide education and protect students from idiot parents
Finn I adored and found the feud so sad
But Mockingbird was a bit hamfisted
Like The Help of its day
I grew to detest it
But I love Huckleberry Finn
I could see the removal of Huckleberry Finn coming even when I was in high school in the early 1980s. My liberal English teacher read passages out of it and substituted “black” for the “N” word. He then gave a speech that took up half the class about how inappropriate the “N” word is in literature. And this was back in a suburban high school class in the early 1980s.
It’s remarkable that a leftist wet dream like To Kill a Mockingbird is removed. The Left is high on its own supply.
I hope those ubersensitive *****es aren’t listening to rap music!
This is Taliban/ISIS level of willful ignorance. To protect their precious feelz they would destroy a culture.
Just prior to WWII, Charlie Chaplin did the flik The Great Dictator!
It needs a current remake!
But who to play the new part????
Was going to post a possible or two...but trouble finding a pic of any actor w/fly on his face...none w/telepromters either!
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Dick@PlanetWTF!
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The intent of Cultural Marxism is to destroy the culture and cripple the country. It has never been anything else. PCDiots do their dark masters bidding well. They do it for whomever wants to destroy the West and take over: now including the Muslims.
These SJWs need to be put on tbe spot, and forced to identify what year they want art,history and literature to start, and before which they want all history deleted. If they can’t provide an exact date then they need to be hammered for selective censorship.
The Color Purple?
It wasn’t that long ago that parents demanded certain books be removed from the curriculum because the characters had sex or were anti-religious.
The schools and teachers pushed back hard demanding that this was about literature and independent thought and teaching open mindedness and exposing young minds to new ideas.
My how the tables have turned...
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