Monday, June 20, 2005
Fargo School Rejects Book Ban
The Associated Press reports in the Bismark Tribune (North Dakota) that,
A Fargo Public Schools committee has upheld a decision not to ban John Grisham's novel, "A Time to Kill," from an accelerated English course at a high school here...The parent who first asked that the book be removed appealed that decision to the district level.
"It's a continuing trend of very bad decision-making at the district level," Pamela Sund Herschlip said of the latest decision. "
Grisham's best-selling novel tells the story of a small-town Mississippi lawyer who defends a black man after he shoots two white men who raped his young daughter. The book describes a rape scene.
