State’s board of education throws out controversial legislation that would have required warnings to be issued of ‘sexual content’ in texts such as Romeo and Juliet
An attempt to give parents a veto over the teaching of books deemed to contain sexually explicit content has been thrown out by Virginia state education authorities, marking the end of a controversial bill that would have enabled parents to ban children from studying classics such as Toni Morrison’s Beloved, The Diary of Anne Frank and Romeo and Juliet if they deemed their content sexual.
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