{"id":5612,"date":"2020-08-07T14:33:10","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T19:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/?page_id=5612"},"modified":"2022-09-28T10:26:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T14:26:06","slug":"dear-martin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/dear-martin\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books 2022 &#8211; Dear Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"marsha-row mt-4 mb-4 flex flex-wrap -mx-2 lg:-mx-6  justify-start border-0 border-gray-100 first:mt-0\">\n\t\n<p><!-- *  START LEFT COLUMN  *--><div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-3\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\">\n<div class=\"\">\n\n<h2>Links<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a id=\"current\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2022\/author\/\">2022 Author<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2022\/title\/\">2022 Title<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/\">Banned Books Home<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Cover<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3408\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/files\/2020\/08\/dear-martin.jpg\" alt=\"dear martin book cover\" width=\"260\" height=\"322\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mulibiiidb.marshall.edu\/record=b1939130~S12\">Held at Marshall University (Drinko Juvenile Collection &#8211; JF S879de).<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- *** ** END LEFT COLUMN ** ***-->\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p><p><!-- *** ** START RIGHT COLUMN ** **--><div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-9\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\">\n<div class=\"\">\n\n<p><strong>Marshall University does not ban books!  The information is provided to let people know what has been banned\/challenged elsewhere.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>2022<\/h2>\n<p>Challenged at Rockwood School District (St. Louis County, MO). Parents complained about the use of <strong>Dear Martin<\/strong> by Nic Stone in the \u201cculture and identity\u201d unit of Rockwood School District\u2019s ninth grade English classes. The school district\u2019s lesson plans contextualize the book\u2019s themes of racism and police violence through discussions on racial profiling, civil disobedience, and affirmative action. According to Rockwood spokesperson Mary LaPak, when the district selects \u201cliterature that students can choose to read, we look for books that include people with disabilities, people of different backgrounds, and people with different life experiences. We want all children to have access to books that are reflective of themselves.\u201d  Janet Deidrick said she was \u201cheartsick\u201d when listening to the audiobook and hearing what she described as an \u201canti-police sentiment.\u201d  Complaints from parents are part of a larger movement resisting the district\u2019s efforts to adopt a more inclusive curriculum aligned with its \u201ceducational equity resolution\u201d and goals of \u201cidentifying conscious and unconscious biases and eliminating barriers to educational achievement.\u201d  To protest this, local parents organized a forum with Republican state Representative Dottie Bailey and state Senators Andrew Koenig and Cindy O\u2019Laughlin to discuss \u201cwhat is being taught in your child\u2019s school.\u201d  According to Genevi\u00e8ve Steidtmann, parent of a Rockwood seventh grader, the pushback against the curriculum is \u201cproving the point that we need this education more than ever. . . . Stopping teachers from teaching facts and the truth is dangerous.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>The Protect Nebraska Children Coalition brought an extensive list of books to the Wauneta-Pallisade (NE) Public Schools board meeting and wanted the books removed from both the elementary and high school libraries. The list of more than 30 titles included <strong>The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian<\/strong> by Sherman Alexie, <strong>Ghost Boys<\/strong> by Jewell Parker Rhodes, <strong>Thirteen Reasons Why<\/strong> by Jay Asher, <strong>Go Tell It on the Mountain<\/strong> by James Baldwin, <strong>Speak<\/strong> by Laurie Halse Anderson, <strong>Dear Martin<\/strong> by Nic Stone, <strong>The Color Purple<\/strong> by Alice Walker, <strong>The Kite Runner<\/strong> by Khaled Hosseini, <strong>Beloved<\/strong> by Toni Morrison, <strong>The Undefeated<\/strong> by Kwame Alexander, <strong>Pink Is for Boys<\/strong> by Robb Pearlman, and <strong>Harbor Me<\/strong> by Jacqueline Woodson. The books were removed for evaluation.<\/p>\n<h2>2020<\/h2>\n<p>A committee submitted a list of supplemental novels recommended for reading in English courses in Columbia County (GA) high schools and were specifically asked in an email the day before school began to provide a list of page numbers of any sex or rape scenes, graphic depictions, or profanity other than &#8220;hell&#8221; or &#8220;damn.&#8221;  The superintendent said she was unwilling to approve <b>Regeneration<\/b>, Mark Haddon&#8217;s <b>The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time<\/b>, and Nic Stone&#8217;s <b>Dear Martin<\/b> because of the &#8220;explicit&#8221; and &#8220;unacceptable&#8221; content. A procedure was adopted that notifies parents about the use of controversial titles in the classroom and allows the parents to request redacted copies. The superintendent stated that the district does not have a process to decide what books are allowed in the media centers but will begin looking at a review procedure.<\/p>\n<h2>On These Pages<\/h2>\n<p>A <strong>Banned<\/strong> book has been removed from a library, classroom, etc.<br \/>\nA <strong>Challenged<\/strong> book has been requested to be removed from a library, classroom, etc.<\/p>\n<h2>For additional information contact<\/h2>\n<p>Ron Titus, <a href=\"mailto:titus@marshall.edu\">titus@marshall.edu<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"tel:304-696-6575\">304-696-6575<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Last updated<\/h2>\n<p>August 19, 2022<\/p>\n<p><!-- ** ** END RIGHT COLUMN *** *-->\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<p><!-- *** * END FULL PAGE DIV * *** --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":784,"featured_media":0,"parent":2039,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full-width.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5612","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5612"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12354,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5612\/revisions\/12354"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}