April 12, 2007

Censorship in Burlingame School System

Burlingame schools pull 8th-grade book from class

Citing his concern for "the morals of our society," Burlingame schools Superintendent Sonny Da Marto has stopped four eighth-grade classes from reading "Kaffir Boy," an award-winning memoir of growing up in a South African ghetto during apartheid.

Posted by pqbon at April 12, 2007 9:21 PM
Comments

I read that book. It was really enlightening. How disappointing... Well, you can't silence the past forever.

Posted by: Meg at April 14, 2007 12:05 PM