A Florida school removed Amanda Gorman's poem recited at Biden's inauguration because a parent complained it had 'indirect hate messages' and was 'not educational.'
for President Joe Biden's inauguration, was moved out of the elementary section of one Miami-Dade County public school, the district confirmed Tuesday. It remains available to older children.
A parent of a studentat Bob Graham Education Center - a kindergarten through eighth grade school in Miami Lakes - objected to the poem, for which they erroneously listed Oprah Winfrey as the author/publisher, documents obtained by the Florida Freedom to Read Project show. It "is not educational and have indirectly hate messages," the complaint said, adding that the poem would "cause confusion and indoctrinate students."
The same parent made similar complaints about "Love to Langston," a poetry-based biography of Black poet Langston Hughes; "The ABCs of Black History" and two books about Cuba, complaints obtained by FFTRP show. A materials-review panel at the school declined to remove the books from the school entirely, but did decide to move the Gorman poem and two other disputed items to the library's middle school section, which is for grades six through eight, minutes of an April meeting of the committee, also obtained by FFTRP, show.
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