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Alaska School Board Removes 'The Great Gatsby' and Other Books
An Alaska school board removed five famous — but allegedly "controversial" — books from district classrooms, inadvertently renewing local interest in the excluded works.
"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou, "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller, "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien, "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald and "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison were all taken off an approved list of works that teachers in the Mat-Su Borough School District may use for instruction.
The school board voted 5-2 on Wednesday to yank the works out of teachers' hands starting this fall. The removed books contain content that could potentially harm students, school board Vice President Jim Hart told NBC News on Tuesday.
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Re: Alaska School Board Removes 'The Great Gatsby' and Other Books
If I was the parent of a kid who attended school in Alaska, I'd go out and buy a copy of every book on that banned list for my child so they could form their own opinion.I hate this kind of censorship.
