Merriam-Webster
Collegiate Dictionary
This
dictionary was banned from a California classroom in 2010 when a parent filed a
complaint that her child came across a term in the dictionary that the parent thought
was too sexually explicit for children.
Source: R. Doyle. (2010). Books Banned or
Challenged in 2009-2010.
A
People’s History of the United States
Author: Howard Zinn
This book
was challenged in 2009 in a Virginia high school advanced placement class,
“because the book is ‘un-American and leftist propaganda,’” (Doyle, 2009). More recently, after the author’s death in
2010, former Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels attempted to have it banned from
all classrooms in Indiana. He then back
tracked and claimed he only wanted it removed from eighth grade classrooms because
children at that age are very impressionable.
Source: R.
Doyle. (2007). Books Challenged or Banned
in 2006-2007.
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