Alaska school board removes 'The Great Gatsby' from curriculum for 'controversial' content

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Bookstores are fielding requests for works removed from Mat-Su Borough School District classrooms.

An Alaska school board removed five famous — but allegedly"controversial" — books from district classrooms, inadvertently renewing local interest in the excluded works.

"If I were to read these in a corporate environment, in an office environment, I would be dragged into EO," an equal opportunity complaint proceeding, Hart said."The question is why this is acceptable in one environment and not another.

"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."

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