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|description_of_content="Persepolis" is a autobiographical graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi. It tells the tale of Satrapi's coming of age in revolution-era Iran. | |description_of_content="Persepolis" is a autobiographical graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi. It tells the tale of Satrapi's coming of age in revolution-era Iran. | ||
|description_of_incident=Unknown Chicago Public School officials declared the graphic novel unfit for middle and high school curricula. They have banned the book from reading lists and ask that teachers wishing to assign the text take a supplementary course on teaching "sensitive materials". | |description_of_incident=Unknown Chicago Public School officials declared the graphic novel unfit for middle and high school curricula. They have banned the book from reading lists and ask that teachers wishing to assign the text take a supplementary course on teaching "sensitive materials". | ||
|description_of_result=The book was removed. | |||
|image=Persepolis-post-1.jpg | |image=Persepolis-post-1.jpg | ||
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