A Tennessee school board voted 10-0 to ban the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel 'Maus,' which details the horrors of the Holocaust.
On Jan. 10, the McMinn County School Board voted 10-0 to remove the graphic novel from an eighth-grade language arts curriculum, citing foul language, nudity and copyright issues.
Parkison said two or three board members came by his office to discuss the book and its"rough, objectionable language." One board member, Tony Allman, said in the meeting that educators"don't need to enable or somewhat promote this stuff," according to the transcript, and cited the book's author's past history of creating graphics for"Playboy."
reached out to McMinn County School Board members for comment, but did not hear back at the time of publication.says"Maus" is a graphic memoir, meaning it's based on a true story and the experiences of the author’s Jewish family during the Holocaust.