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The Columbus Dispatch reports:
Shale Meadows Elementary School third grade teacher Mandy Robek was reading “The Sneetches” to her class as part of NPR’s latest episode of “Planet Money” about the economic lessons in children’s books. During the podcast, which aired Friday, Amanda Beeman, the assistant director of communications for the school district, stopped the reading part way through the book.
“I don’t know if I feel comfortable with the book being one of the ones featured,” Beeman is heard saying on the podcast. “I just feel like this isn’t teaching anything about economics, and this is a little bit more about differences with race and everything like that.” The Seuss family has said the book was intended to teach children not to judge or discriminate against others because of their appearance.
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“The assistant director of communications for Olentangy Local School District abruptly stopped the reading of the Dr. Seuss book, ‘The Sneetches,’ to a third-grade classroom during an NPR podcast after students asked about race.” Story by @megankhenry https://t.co/VU2l3h057a
— Erica Thompson (@Miss_EThompson) January 9, 2023
True story: recently bought a copy of “Sneetches” for my 2 yr old son (it’s my fave Dr Seuss, if only because of the line about “screaming beaches”) and while reading it to him, said to myself: “I wonder if they can still teach this in Florida.”
So: congrats, Ohio? https://t.co/p9IHNlbTCD
— Peter Sagal (@petersagal) January 11, 2023
I remember when conservatives were upset that they couldn’t buy a racist Dr Seuss book but now it’s the Sneetches and they’re like « Dr Seuss is bad, actually » https://t.co/4WWK50DoTf
— Arrogantmonkey (@ArrogantMonkey) January 11, 2023