Tag: library challenges

April 8, 2013 by Brigid Alverson

Roundtable: Removing Persepolis from Chicago classrooms

The recent removal of Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis from some classrooms in the Chicago Public schools attracted a lot of attention. Although it first appeared that all the books were being removed, it turned out that the school district had had second thoughts about teaching it to seventh-graders, largely because of a single page depicting torture. […]