Thursday, November 14, 2024

Florida education officials report hundreds of books removed from schools

American classics such as Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain are among those that have been pulled. Contemporary novels by bestselling authors such as Margaret Atwood and Stephen King have also been removed. 

Members of the Florida Freedom to Read Project, a group comprised of public school parents, said the measure has led to an unprecedented rise in censorship, mostly driven by conservative interest groups, and has limited students' access to diverse literature… 

Multiple school districts in Florida have drawn legal challenges for restricting students' access to books. Escambia county, Florida, was sued in January after removing dictionaries, encyclopaedias, and other books due to content that was deemed to depict "sexual conduct"…

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