“A decision to remove a book, particularly a Toni Morrison book, one of the prominent Black authors in American literature - regardless of the individual motivation of those parents, which I think was valid - the message that that decision sends to the Black community within our school district was one that I just couldn’t support,” Colton School Board Vice President Dan Flores told The Times.Īlthough the change caught PEN by surprise, Flores clarified that the board hadn’t intended to keep the reversal under wraps. 20, the school board voted to reinstate “The Bluest Eye” onto the reading list. Two opposed the motion.Īt the Colton Joint Unified School District board meeting on Aug.
Five members voted to put the book back on the reading list. Three board members reversed their votes from February: President Patt Haro, Frank Ibarra and Israel Fuentes. Members listened to almost an hour’s worth of public comments and eventually voted to reinstate “The Bluest Eye,” six months after its removal. 20, the Colton school board held a regular (albeit virtual) meeting that was quickly overtaken by the book debate. Parents, teachers and students throughout the district deluged the board with emails and comments both opposing and advocating for the book. District officials at the time could not remember another instance of such a removal, according to the Sun. The San Bernardino Sun reported Morrison’s novel was the only book removed from a district list of almost 500 works of literature. Two members opposed the motion and one member abstained.
Of the 566 books that were challenged or banned, these are the “Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2019.”īack in February, four out of seven Colton school board members voted to remove “The Bluest Eye” from the district’s reading list. tracked 377 challenges to library, school and university materials and services in 2019.
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