A novel being read by freshman English classes at Orono (Maine) High School has been removed temporarily from the curriculum, pending its review. A parent complained Jan. 26 about strong language and vivid descriptions used in Susanna Kaysen’s “Girl, Interrupted” and requested that it be removed from the curriculum, Superintendent Kelly Clenchy said Monday.
“Challenging books is alive and well,” Melora Norman, Intellectual Freedom chairwoman for the New England Library Association, said Monday. “Banning books and burning books still happens, [but] you don’t hear it as much because media attention is more focused on graphical aspect.”
challenging = burning
yeah, we’re not a hysterical profession at all…