Book banned in Maryland gets partial reprieve

The Baltimore Sun Reports The superintendent of Carroll County schools, whose ban of an award-winning book from the system’s libraries prompted a protest from students and an outcry from several national groups, said yesterday that he would return the book to high school libraries, but not middle schools.

Nearly three months after banning The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things, Superintendent Charles I. Ecker said he still objects to the book’s use of profanity and its sexual references, but he decided that high school students are mature enough to read it.

January 11, 2006 by Uncategorized 0

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