'To Kill a Mockingbird' Returns to Mississippi School's Reading List After Outcry

[BigmanPigman]

1. I am glad I taught my

GATE (gifted and talented) 6th graders in a blue city in a blue state. I had a parent who complained to my principal that I was teaching "cult religions" in my class. It turns out she was referring to the state curriculum textbook for Ancient Cultures and there were a few paragraphs about Yin and Yang in the Ancient China chapter. I taught the same lesson from the same book to her other child the previous year and she had no problem with it at that time. It turns out that she was bi-polar, a born again Christian and her daughter ran away from home several times when her mother was "having an episode". Teachers have to put up with so much crap from administrators, school boards, parents, students, etc....we really need this on top of bare bones budgets and reduced staffs.