Thursday, September 29, 2005
Iowa School District Bans Pullitzer Prize Finalist
The Associated Press reports the Solon [Eastern Iowa] school board committee has voted to ban Tim O’Brien’s novel ‘‘The Things they Carried’’ from the eighth-grade curriculum.‘‘
They thought it was a good book, quality literature, but probably a little mature for eighth-grade students,’’ Superintendent Brad Manard said.
Manard said one parent complained about language in the book, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1990.
Hey, you can't say they don't know how to celebrate Banned Books Week in Solon.
They thought it was a good book, quality literature, but probably a little mature for eighth-grade students,’’ Superintendent Brad Manard said.
Manard said one parent complained about language in the book, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1990.
Hey, you can't say they don't know how to celebrate Banned Books Week in Solon.
