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The West Ada School District removed 10 books from its libraries earlier in the school year.
Books such as "Charlotte's Web," "Maus," "Animal Farm," and "The Color Purple" have been banned in some schools.
After a parent complained that the Harry Potter series promoted the religion of witchcraft and the occult, the Cedarville School District voted to require children to have parental permission to check out the books. [85] Members of the school district board in favor of the restriction said that the books also promoted disobedience of authority ...
The committee was formed after School Board Chairman Tucker McClendon introduced the idea [102] and it was agreed to be led by District 1 representative Rhonda Thurman. Thurman explained that her reasoning behind chairing the committee is because, "I’m just wanting to inform the public about what their tax dollars are paying for, what's in ...
In 2003, the school board of the Cedarville, Arkansas school district voted in Counts v. Cedarville School District to prohibit students from reading the well-known Harry Potter book series on the grounds that the books encouraged "disobedience and disrespect for authority" and dealt with "witchcraft" and "the occult."
The Beaufort County school district voluntarily removed the 97 books for review after hearing about concerns from a parent, the district said. ... Some of the books the parents want banned center ...
[21] In 2022, it was listed among 52 books banned by the Alpine School District following the implementation of Utah law H.B. 374, "Sensitive Materials In Schools." [ 22 ] Ultimately, it tied for the tenth-most banned and challenged books in the United States that year, according to the American Library Association 's Office for Intellectual ...
Urbandale is unique in that it has a year-round elementary school that started July 27, so the district looked at other states with similar laws to create the list. Most other districts in the Des ...