Texas Teacher Fired After Showing Graphic Novel Of Anne Frank's Diary To Eighth Gradersnullnullnull
Apparently, there are passages in the graphic novel that are "inappropriate" for impressionable teens, as if teenagers aren't supposed to read about how other teens thought and felt.
Shameful.
Source: The Guardian
A Texas teacher was fired after assigning an illustrated adaptation of Anne Frank’s diary to her middle school class, in a move that some are calling “a political attack on truth”.
The eighth-grade school teacher was released after officials with Hamshire-Fannett independent school district said the teacher presented the “inappropriate” book to students, reported KFDM.
The graphic novel, written by Ari Folman and illustrated by David Polonsky, adapts the diary of 13-year-old Anne Frank, who wrote while hiding in an annexe in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam.
The district sent an email to parents on Tuesday, notifying them that the book, which district officials say was not approved, would no longer be read.
“The reading of that content will cease immediately. Your student’s teacher will communicate her apologies to you and your students soon, as she has expressed those apologies to us,” read the email, reported KFDM.