Mississippi schools back down on 'To Kill A Mockingbird' ban; permission slip required

A Mississippi school district will resume teaching "To Kill A Mockingbird" after the book was pulled from a junior high reading list. The Sun Herald reports that Biloxi School District administrators removed the novel from the eighth-grade curriculum earlier this month after the district received complaints that some of the book's language "makes people uncomfortable."
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