Students hated ‘To Kill a Mockingbird.’ Their teachers tried to dump it.
Students first told Shanta Freeman-Miller about how it hurt to read “To Kill a Mockingbird” five years ago.
The stories came out during Wednesday meetings of the Union for Students of African Ancestry, a group that Freeman-Miller, one of the only Black teachers at Kamiak High School, founded at teens’ request. Students shared their discomfort with the way the 1960 novel about racial injustice portrays Black people: One Black teen said the book misrepresented him and other African Americans, according to meeting records reviewed by The Washington Post. Another complained the novel did not move her, because it wasn’t written about her — or for her.
