[Peace-discuss] on how the book Persepolis came to be banned in Chicago public schools

[C. G. Estabrook]

Did ashes-in-the-schoolhouse come up? <http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2015-02-20/ash-wednesday-service-centennial-leads-probe.html>.

That seems to be exercising our friends at Smile Politely: <http://smilepolitely.com/opinion/lets_all_study_a_bit_more_and_be_a_little_more_careful_shall_we/>.


On Feb 21, 2015, at 12:49 PM, Stuart Levy via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> A bit off our usual topic, but at AWARE's table today we talked a little about this article, on the banning from Chicago Public Schools of Persepolis, a young woman's autobiographical story of growing up in Iran, and how school officials covered up their actions when challenged:
> 
>      http://cbldf.org/2015/02/grad-student-uncovers-truth-about-persepolis-ban-in-chicago-public-schools/
> 
> The article begins:
> 
> A graduate student’s research is throwing new light on Chicago Public Schools officials’ 2013 effort to remove Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis from libraries and classrooms throughout the district. Emails released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request and first reported in the Chicago Reader last week confirm what seemed incredible to observers at the time: that top administrators of the third largest school district in the United States really did think they could remove a modern classic from schools without regard for their own policies, their teachers’ and librarians’ professional expertise, or even basic First Amendment principles.
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