Rant: I argued for keeping Huck Finn in our 10th grade class until a parent in Peoria made me read the whole thing out loud first

Mila Sullivan · 2026-10-31T17:35:03.443582+00:00

I picked reading every page before defending it over my old habit of just quoting the famous fence whitewashing scene, and 40 pages in I found three race slurs my quick defense never once prepared me to answer for, so how do you all handle defending a book you actually find hard to defend?

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Rant: I argued for keeping Huck Finn in our 10th grade class until a parent in Peoria made me read the whole thing out loud first | Banned Book Breakdown - Rigidtalk