Challenge update: Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You.

From TwinCities.com:

A panel of parents, teachers and Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan school officials voted unanimously Wednesday to keep a book that uses the word "retarded" in the libraries of nine district schools.

Jenna Boutain, a Farmington resident whose daughter attends a district school, requested in April that the book "Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You" by Barthe DeClements be removed from schools because it uses a derogatory term for students with special needs.

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Comments

[Mark]

This parent would love to know that I have this book in my fifth grade classroom library and the kids never read it. I think it may be because I have the edition with the original cover and not the new, fancy one. My group this year is very ageist in that regard.