Push challenged in South Carolina.
Push was listed on a Horry County Schools reading list. (I don't know if the list referenced is the list for incoming AP English students. Push is on that list, but
A) that list very clearly has a permission slip attached and
B) it's a summer reading list, so I don't know why Outrage would suddenly start now.)
It is not a required text.
It is available in the school libraries -- middle school for sure, and I'd assume high school as well.
Enter Shock and Horror:
"It's basically smut," Bibb says. "The teachers have to do what they're told. This is a Horry County issue. Are there no check and balances between the classroom and the state that look over these books and see?"
Meanwhile, the school board chairman is quoted as saying he hasn't heard a word about the controversy.
Unless I'm very much mistaken -- which I could be, as the article wasn't all that illuminating -- the book isn't being used in the classroom, so I'm not sure I understand what the teachers have to do with it. The librarian, sure. But if the teachers aren't teaching it, then... what?
Either way, here's hoping that the district has a clear-cut Challenge of Materials Policy.