Here's the board's statement on the controversy: https://www.mcminn.k12.tn.us/o/mcsd/article/639918 https://www.mcminn.k12.tn.us/o/mcsd/article/639918 I can't

Here's the board's statement on the controversy: https://www.mcminn.k12.tn.us/o/mcsd/article/639918 https://www.mcminn.k12.tn.us/o/mcsd/article/639918 I can't find any reference that implies that this decision was reached because Maus was too informal. Certainly the people who actually voted don't think that was the reason. I also can't find any reference confirming that it's already been replaced or saying what it's been replaced by. Where are you getting this information? I'd love to check what the administrators were thinking, but I can't find the actual text of the resolution online, and from their own statements it's very clear that the board members -- the people actually responsible for confirming whether the resolution should pass or not -- voted because they thought the book was inappropriate for middleschool children. > It's also misleading to say a comic book is being "banned" I think sometimes people use the word "ban" in different ways/contexts that apply different degrees of censorship. It's totally valid to for you to argue that the usage here is inappropriate or that it implies something stronger than what actually happened. However, given that the school board itself uses language saying that they "voted to remove the graphic novel Maus from McMinn County Schools", I don't think "ban" is an completely unreasonable word for someone to use or that using the word "ban" implies that someone is ignorant of the facts of what happened.