It was literally love/hate relationship with the main character. I believe that any high school student can appreciate this book, but are they willing? Are they mature enough? These are the factors that can affect the way the high school student can view this book. In the email sent Sunday, the group cited more books it says “are designed to engage an interest in sexual activity” and are not appropriate for elementary schools, including “Being Jazz,” “My Sister Daisy,” and “It Feels Good to Be Yourself,” which deal with gender issues.I am a high school student that has read this book in my AP Literature Class.
The Broward school district did in fact remove 11 books from elementary and middle school libraries. In a previous email a few months ago, Moms For Liberty demanded several books written for young readers, most of them dealing with gay and transgender themes, be removed. “We see books like 'The Bluest Eye' being targeted, 'The Kite Runner,' and these are books that are part of some College Board classes, AP classes that our kids take, and so I have a concern also about, are students in Florida going to be as prepared for those exams as states that aren’t banning books?” Leonardi said. Broward school board member Sarah Leonardi disagrees. The group said those books are not appropriate for high school kids because they have graphic, explicit rape scenes. On Sunday, the conservative group Moms For Liberty sent Broward County Public Schools an email demanding the removal of several books from school media centers, among them “The Kite Runner,” which was an international, acclaimed best seller, and “The Bluest Eye,” by Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison. However, fueled by new laws, the issue is rising again in Florida.
What should and what shouldn’t students see in their school libraries? It’s not a new debate, controversies over this book or that book have raged for decades, all over the country.
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