Texas teacher fired for assigning graphic book on Anne Frank’s diary

at Vero Beach High School in Vero Beach, Fla., after a leader with Moms for Liberty, a conservative advocacy group, argued that the novel violated state standards to teach the Holocaust accurately.Canizales, the school district spokesman, did not say what sections the eighth-grade class read. KFDM reported that the students read the passage in which Frank talks about male and female genitalia.On Sept.

“The reading of that content will cease immediately,” the district wrote. “Your student’s teacher will communicate her apologies to you and your students soon, as she has expressed those apologies to us.” The next day, the teacher was removed and a substitute took over the reading class, according to the district. Among the parents upset by the teacher’s assignment is Amy Manuel, who found out about the graphic adaptation of Frank’s diary after her twin sons told her about their day at school.

“It’s bad enough she’s having them read this for an assignment, but then she also is making them read it aloud and making a little girl talk about feeling each other’s breasts and when she sees a female she goes into ecstasy,” Manuel told KFDM. “That’s not okay.” That’s not how the Anne Frank Fonds sees it. The foundation repeatedly defended the inclusion of Frank’s original writing earlier this year to the“We consider the book of a 12-year-old girl to be appropriate reading for her peers,” the foundation said in April.

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