School district pulls To Kill A Mockingbird from reading list; "makes people uncomfortable"

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– News from elsewhere covered by Quincy Quarry News with commentary added.

 

School district pulls To Kill A Mockingbird from its reading list.

 

School officials in Biloxi Mississippi pulled the novel To Kill a Mockingbird from the 8th-grade curriculum after receiving complaints that some of the book’s language “makes people uncomfortable.”

 

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Apparently some were offended by the novel’s historically accurate use of the “N-word” and which has caused similar grief for Mark Twain’s American literary classics The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

 

So what, apparently, for the fact that many great literary works were written to make people feel uncomfortable.

 

 

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That and how the book had been listed on the Biloxi Mississippi school district’s curriculum as a core text for its eighth grade Common Core state standards for English Language Arts.

 

The American Library Association lists “To Kill A Mockingbird” as No. 21 in the most banned or challenged books in the last decade.

 

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