Title: Toni Morrison's 'The Bluest Eye' banned from Colton High School curriculum due to sexually explicit content - ABC7 Los Angeles
Headings: Toni Morrison's 'The Bluest Eye' banned from Colton school curriculum due to sexually explicit content
Toni Morrison's 'The Bluest Eye' banned from Colton school curriculum due to sexually explicit content
Content: "I'm upset and hurt that they cannot trust what we as teachers know is best for our students," Leyva said. The school district says parents are notified whenever there is a controversial book, and parents are given the choice of opting out. Still, some parents complained. So, the school board voted 4-2 to stop teachers from teaching about the book. "They listened to the parents who came to them and were concerned about the graphic sexual violence that was portrayed in the book," said Katie Orloff with the Colton Joint Unified School District. Some students and parents said they were planning to speak in favor of the book at a school board meeting slated for Thursday evening. "A lot of these problems with racism and what have you are in there, and they still follow us to this very day, so to have that taken away from us, it's like we're trying to pretend the problem doesn't exist when it really does," said student Isaiah Enriquez. " We need to have this opportunity as students, as educators to sit down and understand this is how life is." Students at Colton High School can still technically read "The Bluest Eye," just not with the guidance of a teacher. Report a correction or typo
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