The ACLU of Wisconsin wants answers about the requests to ban books in a half-dozen school districts across the state.
The ACLU yesterday filed an open records request with schools Menomonee Falls, Howard-Suamico, Waukesha, Elmbrook, Elkhorn, and Kenosha, asking to see who wants certain books pulled off the shelves. The ACLU also wants to know how the school districts are handling the requests. Schools have been busy this year with requests from parents to pull what they call ‘objectionable’ materials from school libraries. But in some school districts that ‘objectionable’ material includes books like SlaughterHouse Five and The Grapes of Wrath. The ACLU says ‘extremist parents’ are driving the book ban efforts.
