Free speech groups attack Mattoon High School for removing book from its curriculum after parents disputed its ‘extremely’ vulgar content
Free speech groups have slammed an Illinois school’s decision to pull award-winning writer Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close from an English class.
The acclaimed novel centres on nine-year-old Oskar’s quest after he finds a key left behind by his father, who died in 9/11. It was removed from the curriculum at Mattoon High School in September. The school’s decision followed concerns raised by parents about “extremely” vulgar passages in the novel that detail sexual acts, according to the local paper, which added that the school is developing a new policy to inform parents about the books their children are reading.
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