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|subject=Violence, Youth | |subject=Violence, Youth | ||
|confronting_bodies=Athens, Georgia school | |confronting_bodies=Athens, Georgia school | ||
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|date_of_action=6/13/13 | |date_of_action=6/13/13 | ||
|location=Athens, Georgia | |location=Clarke County school in Athens, Georgia | ||
|description_of_incident=profanity | |description_of_content=Tomás Rivera’s coming-of-age story of a Mexican boy’s life in a migrant family in the 1940s and 1950s, with its themes of family life and tensions. | ||
|description_of_incident=The parents of a Clarke County seventh grade student demanded that the Clarke County Board of Education overturn Superintendent Philip Lanoue’s decision not to remove the award-winning book from an Athens, Georgia school. These parents did not want their child exposed to profanity and a lot of offensive language. | |||
|description_of_result=The book has been decided to be restricted to Supplemental reading. Afterwards, this decision was appealed, and it was retained by board vote on 9/9/13. | |||
David Huff, vice president of the school board, opposed the ban. He said that the board should be focusing on bigger issues, such as improving graduation rates, cutting-edge technology, and the future of education, not short-term political distractions. | |||
|image=And the earth .jpg | |image=And the earth .jpg | ||
|source=http://bannedbooks.world.edu/2013/06/16/banned-books-awareness-and-the-earth-did-not-devour-him/ | |source=http://bannedbooks.world.edu/2013/06/16/banned-books-awareness-and-the-earth-did-not-devour-him/ | ||
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Latest revision as of 18:19, 25 October 2013
Artist: Tomas Rivera
Year: 2013
Date of Action: 6/13/13
Region: North America
Location: Clarke County school in Athens, Georgia
Medium: Literature
Confronting Bodies: Athens, Georgia school
Description of Artwork: Tomás Rivera’s coming-of-age story of a Mexican boy’s life in a migrant family in the 1940s and 1950s, with its themes of family life and tensions.
The Incident: The parents of a Clarke County seventh grade student demanded that the Clarke County Board of Education overturn Superintendent Philip Lanoue’s decision not to remove the award-winning book from an Athens, Georgia school. These parents did not want their child exposed to profanity and a lot of offensive language.
Results of Incident: The book has been decided to be restricted to Supplemental reading. Afterwards, this decision was appealed, and it was retained by board vote on 9/9/13.
David Huff, vice president of the school board, opposed the ban. He said that the board should be focusing on bigger issues, such as improving graduation rates, cutting-edge technology, and the future of education, not short-term political distractions.
Source:
• http://bannedbooks.world.edu/2013/06/16/banned-books-awareness-and-the-earth-did-not-devour-him/
