ATHENS, Tenn. -- A Tennessee school district has voted to ban a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust due to"inappropriate language" and an illustration of a nude woman, according to minutes from a board meeting.
Art Spiegelman won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for the work that tells the story of his Jewish parents living in 1940s Poland and depicts him interviewing his father about his experiences as a Holocaust survivor. The minutes from the school board meeting indicate objections over some of the language used in"Maus." At first, Director of Schools Lee Parkison suggested redacting it"to get rid of the eight curse words and the picture of the woman that was objected to."
"It shows people hanging, it shows them killing kids, why does the educational system promote this kind of stuff? It is not wise or healthy," School Board Member Tony Allman said about the book, which was part of the district's eighth-grade English language arts curriculum.
Tennessee school district needs to be educated.
Never heard of it til now, and now I'm interested in reading it. Good job, abc7.
Ummm…It’s written as a comic book style. It depicts hanged children and kids being murdered. Those are facts, yes, but it can be taught w/out graphic comic style pics. Of course media would have an issue with anyone opposing this vileness. Our society really is headed wrong way
there is no other way to talk about genocide no matter with jewish people, irishmen, rwandans, and even armenians and especially american indians. what happened is awful but there is no other way to explain it they are teaching fiction and antisemitism cause now
Because they aren’t on tik tok or youtube seeing way crazier shit…ohkay.
' Inappropriate language ' illustration of a nude woman 🤷♀️. If only parents knew what their kids do , say and watch with their friends 😈.
Yeah…that’s why
“The McMinn County School Board decided Jan. 10 to remove 'Maus' from its curriculum, news outlets reported.” Dropped from the reading list =\\= banned
The safer the kids are the more useless they become.
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