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Vent: my kid's school pulled The Bluest Eye in October and I think the parents pushing for it are wrong
Look, I get that the book is rough in parts, but a small group of about 12 parents got it yanked from the 11th grade list at our district meeting in October, and when I actually read what they were objecting to, it was two scenes they'd seen screenshots of on Facebook, not the whole book, so has anyone here actually gotten a book restored to a school list by showing up to a board meeting, and if so, what did you bring with you?
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the_joseph24d ago
Did anyone at that meeting ask what the actual lesson plan was around those two scenes? Because that's the thing I never see brought up. When our district tried this a couple years back, what saved the book wasn't parents defending it, it was the teacher showing the board her unit plan and how the hard parts fit into the bigger themes the kids were already learning. The board had no idea the scenes weren't just read cold, they were talked through with context, and once that was on the record the vote flipped. Maybe the move is getting that teacher five minutes at the next meeting instead of a petition.
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