Scottish School to Ban Anti-Racist and Class-Conscious Books to 'Decolonise' Lessons
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Harper Lee's famous work, which segregationists tried to have banned, tells the story of a young black man in the US deep south who is wrongly accused of rape. Renowned black actor Brock Peters played the defendant Tom Robinson in the 1962 film, made at the height of the civil rights struggle.
A Scottish secondary school will remove classic novels addressing racism and rural poverty from its curriculum in the name of "decolonising" education.
Allan Crosbie, English curriculum leader at James Gillespie's high school in Edinburgh, called Harper Lee's To