The administration of one school districts in Mississippi were removed from the program the study of the novel «to Kill a Mockingbird».
The Sun Herald reports that the leadership of the school district of Biloxi, Mississippi, decided to remove a classic novel from the curriculum for 8th grade. The Vice student Council President Kenny Holloway said that in a work of Harper Lee complaints: some of the features of the language of the book is «to bring people a sense of discomfort.»
Published in 1960 and awarded the Pulitzer prize, a work of Harper Lee devoted to the problems of racial inequality in the small town of Alabama. «To kill a Mockingbird» teaches the readers that a sense of empathy and fairness regardless of the race or education.
«She complained. In the book there is a vocabulary that makes people uncomfortable. We can conduct the same lesson, but the example of other books,» says Kenny Holloway. «To kill a Mockingbird» will remain in our library but the lessons we will study other works».
