Gorman had recited the poem to a national TV audience during U.S. President Joe Biden's inauguration in January 2021.
In late May 2023, readers asked Snopes if reports were true that a Florida school had banned National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman's poem,"The Hill We Climb." The claim had been widely repeated by the news media. For example, The Associated Press published an article on May 24 headlined,"Amanda Gorman's poem for Biden's inauguration banned by Florida school."
The public school at the center of this matter was Bob Graham Education Center in Miami Lakes, Florida. Its students are enrolled in pre-K through 8th grade. In the complaint, Salinas wrote that she believed Gorman's poem was"not educational." She said that it contained indirect messages of hate and could"cause confusion and indoctrinate stude[nts]."
According to the Times, the other four books Salinas challenged were,"The ABCs of Black History" by Rio Cortez,"Cuban Kids" by George Ancona,"Love to Langston" by Tony Medina, and"Countries in the News: Cuba," by Kieran Walsh.On the night of May 23, the school district, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, published a brief statement on Twitter.
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