![]() “Teaching about the Holocaust using books like Maus can inspire students to think critically about the past and their own roles and responsibilities today.” “Maus has played a vital role in educating about the Holocaust through sharing detailed and personal experiences of victims and survivors,” the museum said in a Twitter post. In response to the book’s removal, the US Holocaust Museum said it’s important for students to learn the history described in the novel. “I think they’re so myopic in their focus and they’re so afraid of what’s implied and having to defend the decision to teach ‘Maus’ as part of the curriculum that it lead to this kind of daffily myopic response,” the author said. “You have to really, like, want to get your sexual kicks by projecting on it,” he said. Regarding the nudity, Spiegelman said the image in question was a “tiny image” that depicted his mother being found in a bathtub after she cut her wrists. “I can’t believe the word ‘damn’ would get the book jettisoned out of the school on its own.” “They’re totally focused on some bad words that are in the book,” he said. “I moved past total bafflement to try to be tolerant of people who may possibly not be Nazis, maybe,” the author said, noting it did not appear based on the meeting that the board wanted the book removed because the author was Jewish. “I’m trying to, like, wrap my brain around it,” Spiegelman said on CNN’s “New Day” when asked for his reaction in an interview Thursday. Ultimately, the board reached the unanimous vote to remove the book after discussing other aspects surrounding the decision, including state regulations, the core curriculum and the possibility of finding a book to replace “Maus.”ĬNN has reached out to Parkison and all members of the McMinn County School Board for further comment on the decision. But the board discussed concerns over copyright issues they may face for altering the book. ![]() Parkison said he spoke to an attorney and suggested redacting the profanity and the drawing of the woman, according to the minutes posted on the school board’s website. There is some rough, objectionable language in this book and knowing that and hearing from many of you and discussing it, two or three of you came by my office to discuss that,” Parkison said. “The values of the county are understood. Tennessee parents say some books make students 'feel discomfort' because they're White. Robin Steenman, chair of the local chapter of Moms for Liberty, cites the second grade book, ?Ruby Bridges Goes to School: My True Story,? as age-inappropriate material about racism taught in local schools, in Franklin, Tennessee, U.S., August 16, 2021. The minutes of the January 10 meeting show McMinn County Director of Schools Lee Parkison addressed the board about the book before voting took place. It depicts Jewish people as mice and Nazis as cats. The novel is intercut with the young author’s attempts to coax the story out of his father as an old man. “Maus” is a graphic novel by Spiegelman, a comic artist, that follows his Jewish parents in 1940s Poland from their early experiences of anti-Semitism to their internment in Auschwitz. The board voted 10-0 to remove the book from the curriculum, saying it should be replaced, if possible, with another book without content deemed objectionable. You can change these settings by clicking “Ad Choices / Do not sell my info” in the footer at any time.“Maus,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the experiences of Holocaust survivors that was recently banned by a Tennessee school board, has made the Amazon best-seller list.Īs of Friday night, a hardcopy version of the serialized work by Art Spiegelman was listed as the online retailer’s #9 top seller.Įarlier this month, “Maus” was removed from an eighth-grade English language arts curriculum by the McMinn County, Tennessee, Board of Education over concerns about “rough, objectionable language” and a drawing of a nude woman. ![]() Please note that you will still see advertising, but it will not be personalised to you. You can choose not to receive personalised ads by clicking “Reject data collection and continue” below. Read more about how we personalise ads in the BBC and our advertising partners. When you consent to data collection on AMP pages you are consenting to allow us to display personalised ads that are relevant to you when you are outside of the UK. We use local storage to store your consent preferences on your device. Read more about the essential information we store on your device to make our web pages work. To make our web pages work, we store some limited information on your device without your consent. The lightweight mobile page you have visited has been built using Google AMP technology. You may be asked to set these preferences again when you visit non-AMP BBC pages. ![]()
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