Free speech groups have expressed alarm at US state’s bill that ‘risks reducing a book to something that is a mere decontextualised fragment’
Legislators in Virginia are drafting a bill that would give parents the right to veto school set texts with sexually explicit content, worrying civil liberties groups that it could be used to ban books as varied as Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five and The Diary of Anne Frank from state classrooms.
The rules would compel schools to warn parents of any set reading they may find objectionable, the Washington Post reports. They would also require schools to provide suitable alternative texts if parents object.
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