1. ILL-LITERACY
In Fairfax county one mother has launched a campaign to have Pulitzer prize winning masterpiece by a Nobel Prize winning author banned from her county’s reading list.
Excerpt from The Washington Post:
Fairfax County parent wants ‘Beloved’ banned from school system. “It’s not about the author or the awards,” said Murphy, a mother of four whose eldest son had nightmares after reading “Beloved” for his senior-year Advanced Placement English class. “It’s about the content.”
“It’s a painful part of the African American history in parts of this country,” said the ALA’s director, Barbara Jones. “A lot of parents understandably want to protect their children from that. .?.?. However, we would strongly advise people to read the book as a whole before they make a judgment.”
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