A Texas middle school teacher was fired and apologized last week after she assigned her eighth-graders to read explicit passages from the animated adaptation of “Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.”
The Hamshire-Fannett Independent School District let educators go Wednesday after text from an “unapproved” book was read during class, KFDM reported.
The passage in question is a diary entry from Frank, a Jewish teenager who documented his years hiding from the Nazis in an attic in German-occupied Holland, where he wrote about male and female genitalia, according to a text reviewed by a local CBS affiliate. station.
The entry, written by Frank in the early 1940s when he was about the same age as an eighth-grader, was redacted from an earlier version of the diary that was widely used in history lessons on the Holocaust for decades.
But, the comic book version of the book “Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation” adapted by Ari Folman, the son of a Holocaust victim, and published in 2018 includes passages about sexuality.
The mother of the twin brothers in eighth grade told the station that her sons came home and said their teacher told the students to read the sexually explicit passage out loud.
“I mean it’s bad enough, he makes them read this for an assignment, but then he also makes them read it out loud and makes a little girl talk about feeling each other’s breasts and when he sees a woman he goes into ecstasy, that’s not OK, ” said Amy Manuel.
The school district sent an email to parents Tuesday afternoon stating that the teacher would apologize for giving out the book.
“It was brought to the attention of the administration tonight that an 8th grade student was reading inappropriate content,” the email said, according to KFDM. “The reading of the content will be stopped immediately. Your student’s teacher will convey his apology to you and your students soon, as he has expressed it to us.”
An illustrated, unabridged version of The Diary of Anne Frank was listed on a reading list sent to parents at the start of the school year, but district officials said it was never approved, the station reported. The district has since launched an investigation into the discrepancy.
A substitute teacher has been leading the reading class since last Wednesday, the school district said.
“The district is currently in the process of posting for high-quality full-time teachers as soon as possible,” the district said.
The graphic novel adaptation of the history book has sparked controversy in schools before — including in the Keller Dallas-Fort Worth Independent School District in Texas where it was pulled from library shelves last year.
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