[Jorge]

This so-called "parent" needs their ass kicked. This is America! We have a First Amendment. Mark Twain is America! Huck Finn is America! This "parent" is a scumbag.

You're joking right?

The fact is, if there are racial slurs, it doesn't belong in a public school.

This "parent" is right and you are wrong. Period.

[Rembrandt_fan]

You wrote, "The fact is, if there are racial slurs, it doesn't belong in a public school."

Read the book, Jorge. For the love of God, just read the book. Twain's novel one of the most insightful, beautifully rendered allegories on the nature of friendship, justice, and racial equality ever written. The kind of blind, rubber-stamping censorship you advocate flies in the face of reason and all we know about the power of great literature.

[Chena]

The fact is, if there are racial slurs, it doesn't belong in a public school. This "parent" is right and you are wrong. Period.

I disagree. Teaching children about literature, past and present, is an important part of their rounded education. Huckleberry Finn is not a HATE novel. There are valuable lessons to be learned in that novel whether you are white or black. In this instance, the parent would have been wiser to be an educator for the child rather than a sensor. This was a valuable, teachable moment for this parent, and this parent chose to fight rather than teach.

[SUSSA]

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[TLI]

The fact is, if there are racial slurs, it doesn't belong in a public school.

uhhh, it is a period piece written in the words and language of that time. You know, that history stuff. Full of those "fact" thingies. It is EXACTLY what belongs in u.S. public schools.

< /crayon > < /big chief >

[FlingWingFlyer]

I'm not "joking."

Only a racist pinhead would think Mark Twain should be removed from our schools.

[Unassuaged]

“The fact is, if there are racial slurs, it doesn’t belong in a public school.”

I can see your point, but no other book even came close to opening my eyes to racism and it’s history as well as Huck and Tom Saywer. Made me think at a young age.