From Will Potter's 1-25-23 DAILY MAIL article entitled "Florida District Removes Novel by Nobel Prize Winner Toni Morrison - the Fourth Most Banned Book in America - from Classrooms and Libraries After Christian Mom Blasted Public Schools as 'Marxist Indoctrination Camp'":
A Florida school board has become the latest to remove a book by Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison from its classrooms and libraries after a mom slammed it for 'exposing kids to pedophilia' and running 'Marxist indoctrination camps'.
Michelle Stille blasted the Pinellas County school board for including Morrison's 'The Bluest Eye' in her child's advanced literature course.
Stille, a teacher at a Christian school in the district, said she was 'shocked any adult would expose 15-year-olds' to the book's 'explicit descriptions of illegal activities'.
Stille emailed school board members disturbing excerpts from the book, which led the authority to review and ultimately ban the novel across the county.
The controversial 1970 novel tells the story of a young African American girl who believes she is ugly as she doesn't have blue eyes.
The book includes elements of abuse, pedophilia, sexual assault, racism and incest, and has consistently been one of the most banned books in school districts across America.
Stille claimed she would be pulling all seven of her kids out of the area's public schools in protest.
'When I first read The Bluest Eye back in September 2022 I had a freeze response to it,' she said her in her YouTube clip, titled 'Marxism in Education' [...].
Pinellas County chief academic officer Dan Evans responded by banning the book from libraries and classrooms, telling school board members the district was 'erring on the side of caution'.
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