29-10-2018 18:35 via ottawacitizen.com

DiNardo: Fear of teaching Mockingbird isn't helping our students

Once again, a school board has proposed that teachers tread carefully if they choose to teach To Kill a Mockingbird. This, in 2018, not 1958.
The Peel District School Board recently issued a memo some are describing as a veiled threat that teachers will not be supported should they choose to teach the Harper Lee Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Apparently the decision is based on complaints from the school community. Was it a concerted group effort or the voice of one? Increasingly we are subjected
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