Any book can be taught in schools as long as teachers are willing to have conversations with children about their context-we don’t live in a vacuum here. Now, for the record, banning books is ridiculous. “There is so much racial slurs in there and offensive wording that you can’t get past that, and right now we are a nation divided as it is,” Marie Rothstein-Williams said. Recently, a school in Virginia removed copies of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn from classrooms-and the county is considering banning them completely-after a complaint by a mother citing the racist language they contain.
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