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West Bend board to decide on The Glass Castle and The Color Purple after committee review
Summary
The West Bend School District Board discussed two book-club titles — The Glass Castle and The Color Purple — July 28 and agreed to place each on a future agenda for formal action after curriculum and policy committees refine the district’s content filters.
The West Bend School District Board spent an extended portion of its July 28 meeting discussing two book-club titles teachers proposed for fall: The Glass Castle and The Color Purple.
District staff reviewed the board’s three-content filters (graphic violence, sexual content and obscene language), presented line-level examples and highlighted where each title had raised questions. Administrators said both texts are offered as book-club choices (not whole-class required texts) and that parent/guardian permission is required for participation in book clubs; families may opt out or sign a blanket permission at the start of the year.
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