No wonder there is no cultural literacy. We were expected to read this popular book. It was a best seller when we were in high school. We were also assigned "1984" and "Huckleberry Finn" in high school. Not anymore, they are too controversial, not PC.
Now everyone has to be protected from everything under the sun so as to remain pliable, leftist-liberal dunces. We can hear Huck and Winston Smith now, as the clock strikes 13.
A literary brouhaha over Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood" has ended as Glendale Unified school board members voted recently to approve the book for advanced placement students.
The 4-0 decision capped a months-long debate among district administrators, teachers, students and parents over whether the nonfiction novel was appropriate for teenage readers. School board member Mary Boger, who had spoken out against including the book on the list of approved reading material, abstained from the vote.
"I think the board did a service to the community by talking about the importance of literature in the public school curriculum," said Holly Ciotti, a longtime English teacher at Glendale High School. "Not only am I looking forward to assigning the book to my AP students, they are chomping at the bit to read it."
"In Cold Blood" became a point of contention last spring after Ciotti requested to add it to a list of books approved for AP language, a course that enrolls top 11th-grade English students and focuses on rhetoric and debate.
The book — first published in 1965 and widely read by high school and college students throughout the country — received unanimous approval from the district's English Curriculum Study Committee. But it raised red flags with the Secondary Education and PTA councils.
The 4-0 decision capped a months-long debate among district administrators, teachers, students and parents over whether the nonfiction novel was appropriate for teenage readers. School board member Mary Boger, who had spoken out against including the book on the list of approved reading material, abstained from the vote.
"I think the board did a service to the community by talking about the importance of literature in the public school curriculum," said Holly Ciotti, a longtime English teacher at Glendale High School. "Not only am I looking forward to assigning the book to my AP students, they are chomping at the bit to read it."
"In Cold Blood" became a point of contention last spring after Ciotti requested to add it to a list of books approved for AP language, a course that enrolls top 11th-grade English students and focuses on rhetoric and debate.
The book — first published in 1965 and widely read by high school and college students throughout the country — received unanimous approval from the district's English Curriculum Study Committee. But it raised red flags with the Secondary Education and PTA councils.
[The PTA and AARP are surrogate censors for the left.]
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