A Tennessee school board has banned a Pulitzer prize-winning novel from its classrooms over eight curse words and an illustration of a naked cartoon mouse. The McMinn County School Board banned it because it contained eight curse words and "naked pictures." More about that in a moment. "The schoolboard could've checked with their book-banning predecessor, [Russian President] Vladimir Putin," he wrote. Holocaust novel 'Maus' banned in Tennessee school district - Chron Sure, 8th graders have seen this stuff before. and fret over eight bad words and a naked mouse. At first, Director of Schools Lee Parkison suggested redacting it "to get rid of the eight curse words and the picture of the woman that was objected to." The nude woman is drawn as a mouse. Teaching the holocaust is essential, but it has to be done right. If I was trying to indoctrinate somebodys kids, this is how I would do it, he added. The _omappvp cookie is set to distinguish new and returning users and is used in conjunction with _omappvs cookie. (I learned that from my mother, a Catholic school teacher and principal who allowed me to read Serpico during my eighth grade year. Maus is simply one of the best books I've ever read, and part of what makes it so important is its genre-busting use of words and images to tell a very serious story. Its not a great time for education. Not Holocaust denial. This is the Bible Belt. The McMinnBoard of Education declined to comment on the ban or how long the book has been taught at its schools, routing DailyMail.com to the board members who banned it. The school board reportedly objected to eight curse words and nude imagery of a woman, used in the depiction of the author's mother's suicide. Free speech and government schooling is a contradiction in terms. And if students (say a first grader) utter them especially directed at a teacher (and that happens not a little across The Fruited Plain) to be consistent, who is to utter the first word of remonstrance to students?

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