Seattle School Board considers request to pull 'Brave New World' from curriculum

Sean Collins Walsh

A request by a Seattle parent to have the 1931 novel "Brave New World" removed from Seattle Public Schools' literature curricula will be considered -- and possibly decided -- at a Seattle School Board meeting Wednesday evening.

Parent Sarah Sense-Wilson has persuaded Nathan Hale High School administrators to drop the distopian Aldous Huxley novel from its Language Arts class, which her daughter took last year. But she has not been as successful in her attempts to have the book removed from literature curricula districtwide.

Having been denied by Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson, Sense-Wilson will make her case this evening to the board, the final appeal under district rules.

Sense-Wilson, a Native American, said she and her daughter found the book offensive for its numerous uses of the word "savages."

Posted by Jim Zellmer at November 18, 2010 4:55 AM
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