Holocaust memoir Maus banned by Tennessee county school board

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A Tennessee county school board has decided to ban the Pulitizer prize-winning graphic novel Maus from its school system. On January 10 according to the board's minutes, the McMinn County school board unanimously voted to remove Art Spiegelman's Holocaust memoir from the curriculum of its eighth-grade English class over adult language and nudity, with the stated intention to find a replacement book that could fill the intended educational component.

In a January 27 statement, however, the McMinn County Board of Education said it voted to remove the book from its school system entirely because "the board felt this work was simply too adult-oriented for use in our schools."

Maus was added to McMinn County's eighth-grade 'English Language Arts' class curriculum in late 2021.

"So, this idea that we have to have this kind of material in the class in order to teach history, I don't buy it," says school board member Mike Cochran, according to the minutes of the January 10 meeting in which this vote occurred. "Not saying that there is not important material, I've read it and read through all of it and the parts it talks about his father, the father is the guy that went through the Holocaust, I really enjoyed, I liked it. There were other parts that were completely unnecessary."

Cochran cites "the naked pictures," acts of attempted suicide, and "cussing."

"You have all this stuff in here, again, reading this to myself it was a decent book until the end. I thought the end was stupid to be honest with you," Cochran continued. "A lot of the cussing had to do with the son cussing out the father, so I don't really know how that teaches our kids any kind of ethical stuff. It's just the opposite, instead of treating his father with some