Group of Progressive Teachers in Washington Trying to Ban ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ in Schools
A group of progressive teachers in Washington state are trying to get Harper Lee’s famous novel To Kill a Mockingbird banned in schools.
The Mukilteo School District teachers claim they are trying to “protect students from a book they saw as outdated and harmful.”
To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in the American South during the Great Depression.
The Washington Post reports:
The stories came out during Wednesday meetings of the Union for Students of African Ancestry, a group that Freeman-Miller, one of the only Black teachers at Kamiak High School, founded at teens’ request. Students shared their discomfort with the way the 1960 novel about racial injustice portrays Black people: One Black teen said the book misrepresented him and other African Americans,
