(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- The American Civil Liberties Union is condemning a decision by a far west suburban school board to remove a book from its English curriculum.
The book is “Just Mercy,” about a young lawyer’s efforts to combat systematic racism in Alabama and across the South.
Even though a parent had objected to the book, Yorkville School District 115 decided in May to continue to use it. Then, in August, officials reversed the decision.
“Banning books is not a practice limited to other states,” said Edwin C. Yohnka, director of communications and public policy at the ACLU of Illinois. “What we are seeing in Yorkville is part of a national attempt to curb reading materials based on politics and ideology, to the detriment of students and educators.”
The Yorkville school district says the book has not been banned, even though it’s been removed from the English II honors curriculum. It remains available to students in the school library.
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