South Carolina School District Is Censoring ‘Assassination Classroom’ Comics – News

Horry County, South Carolina School District Horry County Schools has been temporarily removed Matsui Yuseiof Assassination Classroom The comic was removed from the school library after the mother of a ninth-grader at Socastee High School complained to the school district about its content.

exist Assassination Classroom In the comics and its adaptations, a class of middle school students are tasked with assassinating their homeroom teacher (who is actually an alien with superpowers) before destroying the Earth at the end of the school year.

Jennifer Hannigan, the mother who filed the complaint, described the comic’s content, saying it had many pages depicting “pistols, rifles, knives and potions” and that the story “talks about killing in the pages.” “There are girls in lingerie jumping on top of guys,” she added, noting that the characters in the comic discussed killing their alien teachers in the story.

Horry County Schools is currently reviewing the entire comic series, which may take up to 30 days, during which time the comic will not be available in school libraries.

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Gifford Middle School in East Florida demolished Assassination Classroom The comic was pulled from its library in March 2023 after complaints from groups. The Elmbrook School District in southeastern Wisconsin similarly removed the comic from its electronic library that month after parents complained. The series has faced challenges in other states as well.

Utah in August banned the sale of 13 non-comic books in all the state’s public schools, and under a new law, all 41 school districts in the state will ban the sale of books with pornographic or indecent content. Tennessee, Idaho and South Carolina have similar laws and regulations that allow books to be banned from school libraries across the state, according to the Associated Press.

Brevard, Florida public school board bans Volume 1 Chunyuan Xiangof Sasaki and Miyano boys love The comic was released in the district’s school libraries earlier this year at the Aug. 27 board meeting. One person in the area questioned whether the book would be included in school libraries on the grounds that “sexual orientation should not be encouraged, advised or indoctrinated into young people”. The complaint also included concerns that children would be “exposed to age-inappropriate, obscene and sexually explicit material” and that there was “no value in providing gay and lesbian books in schools”. The book is rated T for Teens.

Source: WMBF News (Ale Espinosa)