Last week, the Albemarle County School Board removed Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet, from its sixth-grade reading list. Several former middle school students opposed the removal of the Victorian-era text, one calling it “the best book I have read so far,” but the mystery novel was nonetheless booted.
Back in May, a parent of a Henley Middle School student complained that the story painted a poor, derogatory picture of Mormons. “A Study in Scarlet has been used to introduce students to the mystery genre,” Brette Stevenson said, adding, “This is our young students’ first inaccurate introduction to an American religion.”
Last Thursday, the school board agreed with the complaint and voted for the story’s removal. It will, however, remain a part of high-school curriculum.
I’m offended by Curious George. They should pull that one too… [Idiots].
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you, good sir, are insulting fine idioits everywhere. Only incompetant boobs would remove that book.