Archived post: This article was published more than one year ago.
External links may have been removed to prevent outdated or broken resources.
“This time, the principal at St. Edmund Campion Secondary School has pulled the classic American novel To Kill a Mockingbird from the school’s Grade 10 classrooms. He made the decision after a parent lodged a verbal complaint about language used in Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.”
Of course, reader’s circles, certainly not a new idea, is one way to respond to selecting texts for students: let students each choose their own books. I think that might make some people’s(aka parents and adminstrators) heads explode…
