'To Kill a Mockingbird' will be removed from ninth-grade required reading list in Mukilteo

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‘White saviorhood’: Mukilteo schools end ‘Mockingbird’ requirement

The book is not banned in the school district. The last book brought before the school board was by Maya Angelou.


MUKILTEO — It’s a new chapter for the Mukilteo School District.

Late Monday, the school board voted unanimously that “To Kill a Mockingbird” should not be mandatory reading for ninth graders.

What will replace the novel is to be determined, but it likely will be a book more reflective of coming of age in the 2020s, not the 1930s.

At Monday’s meeting, the board listened to public comments from about a dozen speakers, with nearly all supporting the novel’s removal from required reading. The book uses outdated and offensive dialogue in telling the story of a white lawyer defending a Black man wrongly accused of rape in Alabama.

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In Mukilteo, the book is not banned. If they choose, teachers can teach it.

“It is our position that this book should not be taught at all,” Ed Glazer, NAACP of Snohomish County education chairperson, said during the public comment session. “… Your teachers have said they do not have the competency to teach this book so it does not traumatize students in the class.”

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