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I used to think book bans were just noise, then my kid's class lost a title
My daughter's 5th grade teacher in Columbus had been reading The Giver aloud for years, and last semester she had to stop halfway because a parent complained about the euthanasia scene. I always figured banning was overblown, but watching 25 kids lose that shared story over one complaint hit different. It took 3 weeks of school board meetings to even get a vote, and they still kept the book out for the rest of the year. Has anyone else seen a classroom reading list get gutted after a single challenge, or is my district just extra cautious?
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ward.jamie8d ago
watching 25 kids lose that shared story over one complaint hit different" - man, that line really got me. Same thing went down at my son's middle school in Cincy with Bridge to Terabithia. One dad threw a fit about the death scene in chapter 7, and the whole 6th grade unit got shelved for the year. The teacher had been doing it for like 8 years, and the kid who complained wasn't even in her class, it was a parent from another grade who heard about it at pickup. We tried to get it back on the list for spring, but the principal basically said it wasn't worth the fight. Now they read some safe sports biography instead, and the kids are so bored. I swear it's like one loud email can nuke years of good teaching.
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