Maus is a graphic novel by Art Spiegelman about the Holocaust. It’s very dark and disturbing, you know because it’s about the Holocaust. A proxy for the author is a mouse who interviews his mouse father about his experience in the Holocaust. The Nazis are depicted as cats. The McMinn County School board in Tennessee has pulled the book from the eighth-grade curriculum because they believe either eighth-graders are too young to learn about the Holocaust, they want to protect Nazis because 60 percent of the country are Trumpers, or they’re all cat people.
Trip advisors advise that the National Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. is fine for 12-year-olds, though there are parts of the museum that has been determined safe for ages as young as eight. I think kids in the eighth grade would be fine with learning about the Holocaust from Maus. In fact, I think that’s an…
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Hi, Scottie—
I’ve been hearing about Scottie’s Toy Box for some time, and I’m now pleased to be signed on to your new iteration. As I blog twice a week, I’m amazed to see all the stuff you post in a single day.
I posted about the banned books horrors today, including the banishment of Maus ( which was by unanimous vote, no less). I came across Art Spiegelman’s observations after reading the minutes of the school board’s infamous meeting. Today’s New York Times reported that “Spiegelman said he had the impression that the board members were asking, ‘Why can’t they teach a nicer Holocaust?’”
Regards,
Annie
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Hello Annie. Welcome to the newest version of where I put my thoughts and outrages, the news I wish to share, and the things I wish were. Or as I call it my playtime. I use to call it my toybox as it was were I kept so many of my favorite toys, but things change. As to how much I post that varies greatly. Some days I post a lot, some days I post only a couple things. You caught me on a good day. Best wishes.
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