Reading About Cuba (Or Not)
Catcher in the Rye, Huckleberry Finn, and the Harry Potter novels regularly appear on lists of banned books, but the Miami-Dade County School District has extended its censorial reach to "Vamos a Cuba" ("A Visit to Cuba"), "a children's book that critics contend glorifies life in Fidel Castro's Cuba."
The board - supported by members of the Miami-area's influential Cuban-American community -believes the English and Spanish book is inaccurate and fails to address Castro's communist government.
Instead of pulling the book from school libraries, why not add books that describe Castro's Cuba from a competing perspective? Aren't schools the ideal place to test the marketplace of ideas?
The Eleventh Circuit will decide whether the school board was entitled to remove the book.
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