Is the popular graphic novel “Persepolis” being banned from Chicago Public Schools?
CPS ‘Persepolis’ Ban? Marjane Satrapi’s Graphic
Novel Inappropriate For 7th Graders, District Says
Is Chicago Public Schools banning the popular graphic novel “Persepolis” from its schools’ libraries and classrooms?
Reports began circulating Thursday that officials in the nation’s third-largest school district were directing the 2000 graphic novel, penned by Marjane Satrapi, to be removed from the libraries and classrooms of at least one school in the district.
CPS CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett explained Friday afternoon, via a statement reported by CBS Chicago, that the district has found the “graphic language and images” of the text — which is included in the district’s seventh graders’ Literacy Content Framework — inappropriate for students of that age. She also denied that the book was ordered removed from the district’s school libraries and said the book could be appropriate for students in eighth grade and older but, in the mean time, they have been “temporarily recalled” from classroom libraries and district curricula.
Novel Inappropriate For 7th Graders, District Says
Is Chicago Public Schools banning the popular graphic novel “Persepolis” from its schools’ libraries and classrooms?Reports began circulating Thursday that officials in the nation’s third-largest school district were directing the 2000 graphic novel, penned by Marjane Satrapi, to be removed from the libraries and classrooms of at least one school in the district.
CPS CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett explained Friday afternoon, via a statement reported by CBS Chicago, that the district has found the “graphic language and images” of the text — which is included in the district’s seventh graders’ Literacy Content Framework — inappropriate for students of that age. She also denied that the book was ordered removed from the district’s school libraries and said the book could be appropriate for students in eighth grade and older but, in the mean time, they have been “temporarily recalled” from classroom libraries and district curricula.
