A North Texas school district says a book chapter by its namesake about a lynching is not appropriate for some students
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Officials at a North Texas school named after a Black man who learned to read and write when he was 98 years old has ruled that a portion of his memoir describing his best friend getting lynched is not appropriate for some students.
The Carroll Independent School District in Southlake, Texas, started evaluating the content of the book "Life is So Good" by George Dawson and Richard Glaubman this summer after a 7th grade teacher intended to add the title as a required reading, Lane Ledbetter, the district's superintendent said in a statement.
Ledbetter said on Wednesday that school officials determined one chapter of Dawson's book was not appropriate for the students' age group and ruled the book can only be used with "teacher-led instruction."
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