“This book serves no educational purpose besides keeping words and behaviors in the minds of our students.”īoutain’s child was given the book as part of an accelerated-reader program. “As a whole, I feel the book is outdated and uses language that is no longer acceptable,” Boutain wrote in her request. On Wednesday, a panel of parents, teachers and officials from the Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan school district voted unanimously to keep the book.īoutain is a district employee who works with special needs students as well as the mother of a student. Jenna Boutain of Farmington, Minn., requested in April that the book “Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You” by Barthe DeClements be removed because it uses a derogatory term for students with special needs. A book that uses the word “retarded” has been allowed to stay in the libraries of nine Minnesota schools despite a parent’s complaint.
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