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|subject=Explicit Sexuality | |subject=Explicit Sexuality | ||
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|description_of_incident=Book was one of four proposed end-of-term reading choices in a junior year high school English course. Students voted on the book and were set to read it when a parent complained about sexual content and profanity in the book. Before it could be discussed by the principal and rather than accept an alternate assignment, the issue was taken above the head of the school to the school board and County Instructional Administration. It was promptly removed and banned throughout the county. | |description_of_incident=Book was one of four proposed end-of-term reading choices in a junior year high school English course. Students voted on the book and were set to read it when a parent complained about sexual content and profanity in the book. Before it could be discussed by the principal and rather than accept an alternate assignment, the issue was taken above the head of the school to the school board and County Instructional Administration. It was promptly removed and banned throughout the county. | ||
|description_of_result=Book banned in the county without official challenge, review or vote. | |description_of_result=Book banned in the county without official challenge, review or vote. | ||
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|source=[http://ncac.org/incident/looking-for-alaska-pulled-from-sumner-county-classrooms “Looking for Alaska” Pulled from Sumner County Classrooms, BY NCAC STAFF, MAY 15, 2012] | |||
[http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/pageviews/tennessee-county-bans-ya-alaska-oral-sex-scene-not-steinbeck-school-officials-blog-entry-1.1638256 Tennessee county bans YA novel "Looking for Alaska" because of oral sex scene: This is not Steinbeck, school officials say, BY ALEXANDER NAZARYAN PAGE VIEWS Updated: Thursday, May 10, 2012] | |||
[http://www.marshall.edu/library/bannedbooks/books/lookingforalaska.asp History of banning] | |||
[http://www.nj.com/burlington/index.ssf/2015/10/nj_district_bans_john_greens_looking_for_alaska_re.html N.J. school district bans John Green's 'Looking for Alaska', By Michelle Caffrey, October 15, 2015] | |||
[https://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2016/apr/26/john-green-looking-for-alaska-banned-censorship John Green fights back against banning of Looking for Alaska, Amy Coles, Tuesday 26 April 2016] | |||
[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/28/battle-keep-looking-for-alaska-kentucky-school-curriculum-john-green-ya US battle over banning Looking for Alaska continues in Kentucky: Free-speech groups have added their voices to support the teaching of John Green’s YA novel, in the face of one parent’s complaint about its ‘filth’, Alison Flood, Thursday 28 April 2016 10.52 EDT] | |||
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Similar objections led to the book being removed in Depew, NY, despite a permission slip already being required. That removal was subsequently reversed. | Similar objections led to the book being removed in Depew, NY, despite a permission slip already being required. That removal was subsequently reversed. | ||