TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Kate Prince on Feb 10, 2022

The American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee (ACLU-TN) today sent an open records request asking for more information about the McMinn County School Board of Education’s decision to ban the book “Maus: A Survivor’s Tale” from eighth-grade curriculum. The graphic novel depicts interviews between the book’s author, Art Spiegelman, and his father about his experiences as a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. According to News Channel 9, McMinn County Schools chose to remove “Maus” for foul language and images of nudity and suicide. ACLU-TN staff attorney, Stella Yarbrough, says the decision “flies in the face of academic freedom.” Read more from ACLU-TN.