the absolutely true diary of a part time indian

The Protect Nebraska Children Coalition brought an extensive list of books to the Wauneta-Pallisade (NE) Public Schools board meeting and wanted the books removed from both the elementary and high school libraries. It is unclear whether letters by students and teachers supporting the book will have any influence on whether the book is allowed to be used in the classroom in the future. A middle school English teacher resigned over the district’s handling of the situation.

But the school district administration has said its priority is protecting students, and that schools should be sensitive to the historic marginalization of students of color. Defenders of the book, including English teachers and faculty department chairs, students, and the board of the Hasting-on-Hudson Public Library, decried what they called censorship of the book. The Hastings-on-Hudson (NY) School District halted lessons after they received complaints from an African-American student and classmates when an eighth-grade teacher read a passage from The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian that included a character’s racist joke featuring the N-word. 2022īanned and challenged for profanity, sexual references, and use of a derogatory term. Marshall University does not ban books! The information is provided to let people know what has been banned/challenged elsewhere.

The absolutely true diary of a part time indian