
Steven Chbosky’s epistolary coming-of-age tale
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Pocket Books, 1999) is being restored to eighth-grade classrooms in Glen Ellyn District 41, a suburb of Chicago, following a recent challenge over concerns about the book’s sexual content and explicit language. According to the
Daily Herald, the school board voted 6 to 1 this week to overturn a previous board’s decision to remove copies of the book. The new school board came to its decision after district administrators pledged to send a revised notification letter to parents at the start of each school year, warning that students may sometimes have access to mature content in their classroom libraries, the
Daily Herald reports.
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