Article: Parents should have a way to challenge student curriculum ; Objections to 'The Catcher in the Rye' are rightly being heard by school officials.


Portland Press Herald (Maine)
12-10-2004
Parents should have a way to challenge student curriculum ; Objections to 'The Catcher in the Rye' are rightly being heard by school officials.
Edition: FINAL
Section: Editorial

Holden Caulfield is causing more trouble.

The travails of this occasionally foul-mouthed teenager have riled parents since he first appeared in J.D. Salinger's 1951 novel "The Catcher in the Rye."
Now, a parent of a student at Noble High School in North Berwick wants the book banned from freshman classes.

Noble High School has a policy that allows students the option of reading something else if a class offers a book parents find offensive. That's an important policy to have ...

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