Republic School District kinda, sorta repeals book ban
After news leaked earlier this summer that the Republic School District near Springfield, Missouri, had banned Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut and Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler, a lot of free-speech types got pissed. The Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library in Indianapolis went as far as making 150 copies of his classic available for free to Republic students.
Now the school board realized its folly in banning two books based on nothing more than the suggestion of Republic resident Wesley Scroggins (whose children are home-schooled). In a meeting Monday night, the board voted 6-0 to un-ban the novels. Well, for the most part anyway.
