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Friday 28 January 2022
Holocaust novel ‘Maus’ banned in Tennessee school district

ATHENS, Tenn. (AP) — A by taking away the first
Tennessee school district part, it’s not changing the
has voted to ban a Pulit- meaning of what he is try-
zer Prize-winning graphic ing to portray.”
novel about the Holocaust Randi Weingarten, the
due to “inappropriate lan- president of the American
guage” and an illustration Federation of Teachers,
of a nude woman, accord- which does not play a role
ing to minutes from a board in McMinn County, noted
meeting. the timing of the news on
The McMinn County School Twitter. Weingarten, who
Board decided Jan. 10 to is Jewish, pointed out that
remove “Maus” from its Thursday is International
curriculum, news outlets re- Holocaust Remembrance
ported. Day.
Art Spiegelman won the “Yes it is uncomfortable to
Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for the talk about genocide, but it
work that tells the story of is our history and educating
his Jewish parents living in about it helps us not repeat
1940s Poland and depicts this horror,” Weingarten
him interviewing his father said.
about his experiences as a The U.S. Holocaust Museum
Holocaust survivor. tweeted that “Maus has
In an interview, Spiegelman played a vital role in edu-
told CNBC he was “baffled” cating about the Holocaust
by the school board’s deci- through sharing detailed
sion and called the action and personal experiences
“Orwellian.” of victims and survivors.
“It’s leaving me with my The Tennessee school
jaw open, like, ‘What?’” he Artist and author Art Spiegelman gets some help with his lunch from Francoise Mouly, of Random board emphasized in the
said. House, Inc., during a signing of Spiegelman’s new book “In the Shadow of No Towers” at the Book minutes that they did not
The decision comes as con- Expo America convention, Saturday, June 5, 2004, in Chicago. object to teaching about
servative officials across the Associated Press the Holocaust but some
country have increasingly The minutes from the school as mice and the Nazis are Instructional supervisor Ju- were concerned the work
tried to limit the type of board meeting indicate drawn as cats. lie Goodin, a former history was not age-appropriate.
books that children are ex- objections over some of the “It shows people hang- teacher, said she thought Although they discussed re-
posed to, including books language used in “Maus.” ing, it shows them killing the graphic novel was a dacting parts of the book,
that address structural rac- At first, Director of Schools kids, why does the educa- good way to depict a hor- that led to copyright con-
ism and LGBTQ issues. The Lee Parkison suggested re- tional system promote this rific event. cerns and board members
Republican governors in dacting it “to get rid of the kind of stuff? It is not wise “It’s hard for this genera- ultimately decided to look
South Carolina and Texas eight curse words and the or healthy,” School Board tion, these kids don’t even for an alternative book
have called on superinten- picture of the woman that Member Tony Allman said know 9/11, they were not about the subject.
dents to perform a systemic was objected to.” about the book, which was even born,” Goodin said. The book isn’t the only
review of “inappropriate” The nude woman is drawn part of the district’s eighth- “Are the words objection- one banned recently
materials in their states’ as a mouse. In the graph- grade English language able? Yes, there is no one amid critical race theory
schools ic novel, Jews are drawn arts curriculum. that thinks they aren’t. But controversy.q

Coast Guard to suspend search for

migrants off Florida

it doesn’t receive any new any new discoveries, was a death is eligible for ex-
information. not an easy one. ecution. “The goal of this
Homeland Security Inves- “We have saturated the investigation is to identify,
tigations officials said they area over and over again,” arrest and prosecute any
were actively investigat- she told a news confer- criminal or criminal orga-
ing the case as a human ence. “We’ve had good nization that organized,
smuggling operation. visibility. ... We’ve over- facilitated or profited from
Authorities have now found flown the vessel a number this doomed venture,” said
a total of five bodies, leav- of times. ... It does mean HSI Miami Special Agent in
ing 34 missing five days we don’t think it’s likely that Charge Anthony Salisbury.
after the vessel capsized anyone else has survived.” Salisbury declined to give
Coast Guard Cutter Ibis’ crew searching for people missing from on the way to Florida from The Miami office of Home- any information on the na-
a capsized boat off the coast of Florida, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022. Bimini, a chain of islands land Security Investigations tionalities of the boat pas-
Associated Press in the Bahamas about 55 has launched an inquiry, sengers but said investiga-
miles (88 kilometers) east of saying the migrants’ jour- tors consider the lone sur-
By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON four additional bodies in Miami. ney was most certainly part vivor “a victim right now,”
Associated Press its search for dozens of mi- Coast Guard Capt. Jo-Ann of a human smuggling op- not a suspect. Salisbury ap-
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) grants lost at sea off Florida F. Burdian said the decision eration. pealed to the public for tips
— The Coast Guard said but would suspend its res- to suspend the search at Under federal law, a smug- to help identify who orga-
Thursday that it had found cue operations at sunset if sunset Thursday, pending gler convicted of causing nized the boat crossing.q