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The Chicago Public School district has issued an ambiguous statement regarding the present and future availability of Marjane Satrapi’s PERSEPOLIS to students. PERSEPOLIS is a coming of age memoir about a girl in her early teens. The book has been read and taught in school districts across the country, without caveat or condition. In addition, Marjane has met with students across the country, including students in Chicago. The fact that Chicago is trying to limit this book’s use in classrooms and curriculums, suggesting teachers need guidance before they can discuss it, smacks of censorship.

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    Here is a new story explaining why the book was possibly going to be banned from middle schoolers Here’s a concluding...
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    We’ll be following this story about the availability of Persepolis in Chicago schools as it develops.
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    This is definitely some bullshit. Persepolis is the best. I read it in Middle School, and it made me smarter and more...
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    I figured the reason would be the amount of sex and death, which I kinda understand people might worry about showing to...
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    This is a great work of art. But I have to say, that maybe only 8th-graders and high schoolers should be able to read...
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