School cancels To Kill a Mockingbird over ‘white saviour’ narrative
Seminal text ditched at the ‘decolonising’ James Gillespie High School in Edinburgh amid concerns over ‘dated’ approach to race
To Kill A Mockingbird will no longer be taught to pupils at a secondary school after teachers claimed the book promotes a "white saviour" narrative.
The seminal text is to be excluded from classrooms at James Gillespie High School in Edinburgh as part of wider plans to decolonise the curriculum amid concerns over its "dated" approach to race.
The 1960 work tells the story of a black man in Alabama who is falsely accused of rape by the town's citizens and later defended by a white lawyer, Atticus Finch.
John Steinbeck’s classic novel Of Mice and Men will also be phased out over its use of the N-word, according to Allan Crosbie, the school’s head of English.
The proposals are part of a wider initiative to “decolonise” the curriculum, with greater emphasis placed on works from non-white authors with less Western-centric viewpoints to better reflect a diverse range of experiences.
Students will instead focus on more contemporary works including Angie Thomas' award-winning novel The Hate U Give, which was inspired by a police shooting in 2009 of an African-American man while he was restrained and unarmed.
So a story about a dedicated, unbiased lawyer who defends an innocent black man in a southern racist state is banned. What a pathetic weak bunch of tossers, to put it politely.
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