Amanda Gorman spoke out Tuesday after access to the poem she recited at President Joe Biden’s inauguration was restricted at a school in Miami-Dade.
was never banned or removed from one of our schools. The book is available in the media center as part of the middle grades collection.“What we’re doing is just moving books to areas in which they’re appropriate for students," said Miami-Dade School Board member Robert Alonso, whose district includes the school at the center of the controversy."We’re never removing any books unless it has content which is really not appropriate for any of our kids in the school system.
Daily Salinas, the parent who filed the initial complaint, claims the titles contained"inappropriate content," listing the topics of"gender ideology, CRT, and communism." In her formal complaint for “The Hill I Climb,” Salinas wrote that it was “not educational,” contains"hate messages,” and that its function is to"cause confusion" and"indoctrinate students."
According to the nonprofit free-speech organization PEN America, 175 books have been removed so far inJust last week, Gorman’s publisher, Penguin Random House, joined PEN America inPEN America and Penguin Random House sued the Escambia County School District over its removal of 10 books about race and LGBTQ+ identities, alleging that the district and its school board are violating the First Amendment.
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