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| Cherry Hill to keep book in curriculum |
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| Thursday, 24 January 2008 | |
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By BARBARA S. ROTHSCHILD The board of education unanimously approved a resolution to keep "To Kill A Mockingbird" in the high school English curriculum when it met Tuesday. The vote was 8-0. Board member Nancy O'Dowd was absent. A resident had objected to the novel's depiction of how blacks are treated by members of a racist white community in an Alabama town during the Depression. The resident feared the book would upset black children reading it. READ MORE: http://www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080124/NEWS01/801240388/1006/news01
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