Pulled from classrooms in OR: Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye.

From The World:

NORTH BEND — Students in a North Bend High AP history and literature class are frustrated and confused after school administrators pulled Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye” from their classroom last week.

On May 9, Dustin Hood and Scott Peters’ American Connections class started learning about post-World War II America. The class pairs history with literature, following literary movements in different eras. Peters complemented the history lesson with an assignment in postmodern literature: Read the first 30 pages of “The Bluest Eye” over the weekend.

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Peters prefaced the assignment by telling his class of 40 students about the controversial content. If they didn’t want to read it, they didn’t have to, he said. Six opted out and chose to read a different book.

But the following Monday, Principal Bill Lucero came to the class with a box and asked the rest of the students to hand over their copies of “The Bluest Eye.”

There's a lot of great quotes in the article—it's well worth clicking through for the whole story.

Comments

[E.M. Rivera]

I'm the parent quoted in the article (and a regular subscriber to your feed...is it weird that I was super excited to see it on your blog?) It's too bad the article didn't mention the kids' protests at school. A number of kids wrote "451" on their faces/hands and the kids who make the announcements changed the quotes of the day to quotes from "Farenheit 451". A tad dramatic, but so cool they did that on their own.

[Leila]

Wicked cool that they got involved on their own -- I hope pictures/descriptions of their involvement filter out into social media and into the news!