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Residents urge board to restore The House on Mango Street to 9th-grade ELA; multiple readers quote passages
Summary
Dozens of residents, teachers and parents urged the Elizabethtown Area School District board during public comment to restore Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street to the ninth-grade curriculum, reading passages and arguing the text offers vital representation and class discussion opportunities.
Dozens of residents and educators used the district’s public comment time to urge the Elizabethtown Area School District board to restore Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street to the ninth-grade English language arts curriculum.
Christy Moore, a 20-year public-school educator who introduced herself as a parent of two Elizabethtown students, said the book ‘‘creates space to discuss the universal human experiences of hardship and sadness, but also of hope.’’ Moore asked the board to reconsider removing the text and read an extended passage to…
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