With 'Maus' ban, McMinn County group accuses school board of violating its own rules
McMINN COUNTY, Tenn. — One group is blasting the McMinn County School board decision to remove a book about the Holocaust from eighth grade curriculum.
They say the board acted wrong on a moral and legal level, and plan to hold a news conference before the school board's meeting Thursday night.
We spent Tuesday digging deeper into the group's claims that the board violated its own policy. And the answer is far from clear.
The group "McMinn County Neighbors" says in an emailed release that the board called a meeting and banned 'Maus' without following its own rules.
Those rules include the need for a formal complaint from a parent about the book. To our knowledge, there is no word of a specific parental complaint, but we are pressing board members and school officials for answers about that.
McMinn County Neighbors say the board's own rules say after a complaint is filed, the book should remain in the curriculum while an ad hoc committee composed of school principals, librarians, teachers, parents and students would review the material based on its merits.
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