Originally published June 17 on IdahoEdNews.org.
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 earlier this month 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.”…