{"id":107308,"date":"2020-11-16T15:31:15","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T20:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=107308"},"modified":"2020-11-16T15:31:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T20:31:15","slug":"california-school-district-bans-classic-works-of-american-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=107308","title":{"rendered":"California school district bans classic works of American literature"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Right on schedule, amid the new unconstitutional lockdowns, we have book bannings coming out of a liberal enclave. Newsweek is reporting<\/a> that the Burbank Unified School District has banned many classic works of American fiction from use in course syllbi for their “offensive” presence of the N-word (historical context is soooo passe in education).<\/p>\n

Until further notice, teachers in the area will not be able to include on their curriculum Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, Theodore Taylor’s The Cay and Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.<\/p>\n

Four parents, three of whom are Black, challenged the classic novels for alleged potential harm to the district’s roughly 400 Black students.<\/p>\n

All but Huckleberry Finn have been required reading for students in the district.<\/p>\n

Carmenita Helligar said her daughter, Destiny, was approached by a white student in math class using a racial taunt including the N-word, which he’d learned from reading Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry while both attended the David Starr Jordan Middle School.<\/p>\n

“My family used to own your family and now I want a dollar from each of you for the week,” another boy is said to have told Destiny.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, I’m totally sure this happened. It sounds so legit that it just has to be true! If a kid learns the N-word, it is most assuredly not coming from reading. It’s coming from rap music or just hearing some black youth interacting with anyone. I can’t count how many times I’ve been casually called “nigga” by an urban youth, and I’m not even black.<\/p>\n

Helligar, who is one of the parents who filed a complaint in the case, claimed the boy’s excuse was that he had read it in class and the principal had been dismissive of the incident.<\/p>\n

“My daughter was literally traumatized,” Helligar said. “These books are problematic … you feel helpless because you can’t even protect your child from the hurt that she’s going through.”<\/p>\n

Nadra Ostrom, another Black parent who filed a complaint, argued that the portrayal of Black people is mostly from a white perspective.<\/p>\n

“There’s no counter-narrative to this Black person dealing with racism and a white person saving them,” she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Atticus Finch is such an asshole for doing the right thing and helping a black guy. Effing white knighting the poor fella.<\/p>\n

Ostrom added that the current education given to students assumes “that racism is something in the past.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We wouldn’t want kids in school to learn the truth about things. That keeps them from being convinced they’re victims of something and entitled to special treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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