The school board voted 2-1 to overturn a decision to ban “Jack of Hearts (and other parts)” from the Cedar Heights Middle School Library. One board member abstained.
from a Kent middle school library will go back on its shelves.
One school board member, Tim Clark, stood by the IMC’s original decision during a Kent School Board meeting Wednesday night. “I studied the committee’s rubric on analyzing the books. It did follow our middle school standards of healthcare curriculum,” Hamada said. “It did have a theme or a message beyond the provocative parts that could speak to individual students looking and needing that information, and it is free reading.
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