Annabelle Jenkins walked onto the stage during her graduation ceremony from the Idaho Fine Arts Academy in the West Ada School District with a book tucked into her sleeve.
When she stood before West Ada Superintendent Derek Bub, she slipped out the book — the graphic novel of “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood and Renee Nault — faced the audience and smiled, and handed it toward Bub. It was one of 10 books the West Ada School District had removed from libraries earlier in the school year.
Bub did not take the book. Jenkins dropped it at his feet and walked off the stage without shaking his hand.
A TikTok video she posted of the incident that night garnered over 24 million views and more than 15,000 comments.
This one’s though. The original novel is still on the shelves -they only banned the graphic novel since they don’t have a process in place to deliver books based on age groups. I haven’t read the graphic novel of the Handmaid’s tale, but I don’t know if I would read the book to 14 year olds. School districts have to make these kinds of though decisions all the time. Libraries on the other hand should never ban books. What do you guys think?
Seems like they need a new…… process to deliver books based on age groups.
Totally agree.
Is it though, though?
It seems with like a name like “fine arts academy” it would already filter attendees by age.
High school ranges from 14 to 18, right? Or is the academy only for one specific age group?