![]() After a meeting, the board agreed with the protesters and reinstated the books. ![]() The reaction to this decision was swift and loud, with protests against censorship on social media and on the courthouse green in Accomac. The district, per its policy, suspended the books pending a review. The books, stories about race and racism, are loaded with the n-word. So said Marie Rothstein-Williams, a parent in the Accomack County school district, when she protested the use of the books “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and “To Kill a Mockingbird” at a school board meeting. ![]() We’re validating that these words are acceptable and they’re not acceptable by no means.” “I keep hearing ‘This is a classic, this is a classic.’ I understand this is a literature classic, but at some point I feel the children will not or do not truly get the classic part, the literature part … There’s other literature they can use.
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