GET ME REWRITE: Menomonee Falls school board president and her puppet get pushback over banning of award-winning books

 

Photo credits:  Nina Christensen, David Munoz

Headline:  CBS58, 11/14/2023

The books being pushed out by the school district range from titles like "The Kite Runner" [2004 Alex Award winner], "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" {ALA Best Books for Young Adults 2000], and "Sold" by Arthur Patricia McCormick [Finalist, National Book Awards 2006 for Young People's Literature]. 

"It's about child trafficking, which is something that kids in the United States need to know about, it's happening here," said McCormick. 

McCormick said with the introduction of book banning, kids could miss out on new worldly perspectives. 

"We are failing our kids if we don’t make them aware of the world as it is, if we don’t prepare them for the world that they are going to encounter," said McCormick. 

Nina Christensen, president of the Menomonee Falls School Board, sent CBS 58 a statement that reads in part, "This is not about banning books. It is about compliance with our district’s policy and procedure 365."