An Alaska school board has removed 5 famous — but allegedly 'controversial' — books from district classrooms.
Even though the school board had listed an agenda item to discuss"controversial book descriptions," Shibe said no one believed those works were under serious threat.
"Most of the community didn't respond because these books had been used forever," Shibe told NBC News. “Now in retrospect, it's like 'duh,' I could have seen this coming.”“This is not set in stone," she said."The union is all about educating students and this flies in the face of educating students."
Mary Ann Cockle, owner of Fireside Books in Palmer, Alaska, about a mile away from district headquarters, said her store ran out of copies of the books within hours of board action.. “We've gotten questions from all over the state of Alaska, as well as California, Tennessee, other states." Board vice president Hart insisted these books are not"banned" and said they all remain in district libraries.
Even though students are still free to read these books on their own, Hart said it'd be unfair to ask teachers to have to navigate their pupils through the complicated subject matter.still came under harsh scrutiny.
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