Florida Freedom to Read Project

Florida Freedom to Read Project

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Confessions from a FL Teacher: After learning an excerpt from THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK was challenged in her school’s curriculum for being age inappropriate, this teacher shared a common note of exhaustion. The attacks on their personal library collections are unnecessary….

Il'm in despair, & honestly, I'm not even sure if I can finish out the year. I'm ready to walk & lose everything. I've said that I'm gone if they come for my books, & we have to have our classroom libraries inventoried by June 30. Not even getting into the logistics of that & the utter impossibility of doing it on paid time, I know they're not concerned about my book organizing skills. Faced with this, I figure most teachers will just start tossing books in an effort to make the requirement remotely manageable. They're (the people in charge - NOT the teachers) screwing over an entire generation of Florida's schoolchildren. It's unbelievable. Just wanted everyone to know that a parent complained to one of our teachers about a reading comprehension assignment that had an excerpt from The Diary of Anne Frank. She said it was "inappropriate." In it, Anne was worrying about school and some other mundane things - not a single word about the Holocaust.