I think reasonable people can disagree about the extent to which removing a book from the required reading list would have such a chilling effect.
In any event, can we agree that it's misleading to describe what happened simply as "banning" without further qualification? As an example of a more accurate description, I would point to Reason's article on the subject [1]:
> Tennessee School Board Pulls Maus From Eighth-Grade Curriculum
> A grim sign of the bureaucratic mentality controlling public education
I still disagree because my experience with the way schools operate is that “removed from the curriculum” and “banned” amount to the same thing in practice. It’s a distinction without a difference.
I'm baffled there is such obvious hairsplitting on this on HN, of all places, against a notable educational book about the freakin Holocaust. One of my college roommates was assigned this text in a contemporary literature course as it was and is a contemporary historical fiction graphic novel.
In any event, can we agree that it's misleading to describe what happened simply as "banning" without further qualification? As an example of a more accurate description, I would point to Reason's article on the subject [1]:
> Tennessee School Board Pulls Maus From Eighth-Grade Curriculum
> A grim sign of the bureaucratic mentality controlling public education
[1] https://reason.com/2022/01/27/tennessee-school-board-pulls-m...