“This book serves no educational purpose besides keeping words and behaviors in the minds of our students.”īoutain’s child was given the book as part of an accelerated-reader program. “As a whole, I feel the book is outdated and uses language that is no longer acceptable,” Boutain wrote in her request. Jenna Boutain, a Farmington resident whose daughter attends a district school, requested in April that the book “Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You” by Barthe DeClements be removed from schools because it uses a derogatory term for students with special needs.īoutain is a district employee who works with special needs students at Falcon Ridge Middle School. A panel of parents, teachers and Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan school officials voted unanimously Wednesday to keep a book that uses the word “retarded” in the libraries of nine district schools.
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