Surrey public school educators have pulled four classic books from the recommended reading curriculum over concerns about racist content.
The Surrey school district quietly decided to remove Harper Lee’s 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill A Mockingbird, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, John Ball’s In the Heat of the Night, and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck from the list of books recommended for students Grade 10 and older.
… “We did a comprehensive review of these resources that determined that the merits of these novels do not outweigh the potential trauma and harm they may cause to some students,” she said.
They’re not “banned” but a teacher must have permission to use them in the classroom.
I was reading about WW I, WW II and the Holocaust in elementary school. Are kids that fragile today?
