School District Pulls To Kill a Mockingbird From Curriculum

Eighth grade English teachers in Biloxi, Mississippi, will have to find a new book to teach this semester after the Biloxi School District abruptly pulled To Kill a Mockingbird from its curriculum last week. 

On Wednesday or Thursday, district administrators yanked the classic 1960 novel by Harper Lee after receiving complaints about the book's wording, in particular its use of the "n" word, the Sun Herald reports.

 “There were complaints about it," Kenny Holloway, vice president of the Biloxi School Board, said. "There is some language in the book that makes people uncomfortable, and we can teach the same lesson with other books." A member of the school board said that the decision to drop the book from the curriculum came from the district's administrators and not the board.

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