NAACP objects to To Kill a Mockingbird.

Remember the Athletic Shorts challenge?  This is pretty similar.  The major difference is that the school seems to have said, "Um.... no."  Which is nice.

From Pasadena Weekly (via ASIF!):

One of the solutions that the committee came up with was eliminating the word “nigger,” which appears in the novel more than 300 times, from discussions. Lee’s book has been part of the school’s English curriculum for the past 15 years.

Then Finch said the school brought in an African-American poet to explain the power of words to the kids. Finch later personally spoke to the children to reiterate the school’s position that the use of that word would not be tolerated and would likely result in suspension or detention, as it did for one student who called another student that word four years ago. Then Finch followed up the talk with a letter to parents, stating much the same positions.

“We took a lot of additional steps, but we did not remove the book. But this apparently was not good enough for Mr. Morris. He wants the book removed from the curriculum, but we are simply not going to do that. But I respect his point of view,” Finch said.

In other good news, The Handmaid's Tale has been returned to the AP English curriculum in Judson, TX.