\What a bad decision by the Mukilteo School District to distance itself from the Harper Lee book “To Kill a Mockingbird” (“’White saviorhood’: Mukilteo schools end ‘Mockingbird’ requirement,” The Herald, Jan. 25).
To me, it indicates the board members who voted to do so do not have a literary bone in their body. It’s a classic of modern American literature, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and on many literary lists as a great novel.
Board member John Gahagan said the book “is a very disturbing book. … It’s a difficult book.” Yo! It’s supposed to be a disturbing book; it’s supposed to be a difficult book! That’s what good literature and poetry is all about. Makes one think about the words, the timeframe of the story, Harper Lee’s motives. Talking points. Discussion.
I am glad I currently do not have any affiliation with the Mukilteo School Board. Not impressed. Wokism and CRT appear to have infiltrated the board members. Discussion be damned. Maybe they can find a rock to crawl under.
When I finish with Edith Wharton’s “The Age Of Innocence” (oh no! she used the word mulatto to describe a maid in chapter 30 and elsewhere), time to reread “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
John Teehan
Shoreline
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