Four years after the Nampa School District banned 22 books, administrators are being more cautious and recommended that the school board preemptively remove three potentially controversial books in a new middle school curriculum.
Trustees accepted that recommendation Tuesday and voted 4-1 to adopt the curriculum with the exception of the pandemic nonfiction book “Patient Zero,” a collection of poems called “One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance,” and the critically acclaimed Holocaust graphic novel “Maus.”
A curriculum committee had recommended adopting the full Gradient “EL Education” middle school curriculum, including the three books, but Superintendent Gregg Russell said he and other administrators had concerns about how community members might misconstrue the books. The district did not receive formal complaints from parents or teachers, and Russell told EdNews that this is not a book ban…