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Race censorship row after city teachers bid to dump classics


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Hollywood star Gregory Peck played the Southern lawyer Atticus Finch in the 1962 movie version of To Kill A Mockingbird.
A censorship row has broken out after the English department at one of Scotland’s top state secondary schools signalled its intention to scrap lessons on classic texts because of their “dated” approach to race.
Allan Crosbie, curriculum leader for the subject at James Gillespie’s High in Edinburgh, said he and his colleagues had decided they no longer want to teach John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird to third year pupils. ....

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