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A Small Group of Angry Parents Threatens to Sue a School

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A small group of angry parents threatens to sue a school board for their support of an English teacher and her choice of texts for her class, including the work of J. D. Salinger and Judy Blume. The parents claim that Salinger's Catcher in the Rye and Blume's Forever are inappropriate to teach in school because of their subject matter. If this case reached the courts, what would a judge consider in deciding the case?


A) A review of the personal lives of both Salinger and Blume
B) The relevance of the two books to the formal course objectives
C) The literature selections of other teachers in the department
D) The merit and quality of each literature selections, as viewed by literary critics and scholars

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