Some Wisconsin Parents Want Maya Angelou Autobiography Out of Class

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Some Fond du Lac parents have asked school officials to remove former U.S. poet laureate Maya Angelou's autobiography from the high school curriculum.

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... some parents have objected to passages that describe Angelou's rape and subsequent unwanted pregnancy. About 80 people attended a meeting Tuesday at the school this week to discuss the book and the request to remove it.

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Fond du Lac High School Principal Mary Fran Merwin ... said the school has used the book for a decade.

"It is Angelou's own account of growing up," Merwin said. "It has a number of attributes, and it's a historically relevant story about a black woman growing up in the United States."

School board president Gary Sharpe said the request was the first to remove a book in his eight years on the board. A school committee will make a decision on the book, and if parents remain unhappy, they can appeal to the superintendent and school board, he said.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,231932,00.html

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I admire M.A. for many things.. part of her life is part of her life. Just because someone doesnt want to read about it doesnt make it go away nor make it untrue.

stupid a$$hats .. get a life of their own and live it.. let the person that is living live... sheesh.

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Um, this is hardly limited to Fond-du-Lac, WI. IKWTCBS is #3 on the ALA's list of most challenged books. It's worth discussing, but this does seem to imply that people in one town in Wisconsin are the problem, when it's a problem all over the country. In my high school, only the highest levels of English classes (Honors and Advanced Placement) read it. Actually, I've read about half the books on the challenged list in my English classes (and many were published after I was too old to be in the target age range).

http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek...tfrequently.htm

http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek...m#1990topresent

Edited November 25, 2006 by sparkofcreation

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Damn. Some people have no idea...

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