Starting Friday, the students at Menomonee Falls High School won’t have access to Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” or Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five.” And they won’t read Rupi Kaur’s poems in “The Sun and Her Flowers.”
Those books and 30 others will be pulled from the shelves tomorrow after administrators in the School District of Menomonee Falls have deemed them too “sexually explicit” for students. The decision is the latest in the battle over books and free speech taking place across Wisconsin and the nation.
While several of the books chosen to be removed from Menomonee Falls High School are on the Advanced Placement English Literature reading list, Superintendent David Muñoz said the 33 books being removed from circulation are not in compliance with the “sexually explicit content and/or profanity guidelines” set in school policy.
Those policies and guidelines…
