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Florida School Board Shelves Children's Novel About a Boy Killed by Police On 5/10/21 at 5:11 PM EDT Sun-Sentinel reports that the book in question is Jewell Parker Rhodes's "Ghost Boys." A fifth-grade classroom in Coral Springs, Florida, was studying the book together before the Broward County school board ordered the classroom to immediately cancel all readings and assignments related to the book. The novel is told from the perspective of 12-year-old Jerome, a Black child who was fatally shot after a police officer mistook his toy gun for a real one, according to the book blurb found on Goo...

“The timing of whether to implement this subject matter must include parents and ultimately be a decision by the parents of each student,” school board member Lori Alhadeff told the newspaper. "I do not feel ‘Ghost Boys’ is appropriate for fifth graders.” Common Sense Media, a nonprofit that rates TV shows, movies, books and other content based on children's development, says the book is appropriate for children who are 10 and older, the age of fifth graders. The book was published in 2018, and it is told from the point of view of a 12-year-old bullied Black boy in Chicago who is sh...

Florida school pauses use of book about killing of Black boy by white officer John Bowden © The Hill Florida school pauses use of book about killing of Black boy by white officer A school board in Florida has temporarily paused the use of a book detailing a fictional story of a Black child shot to death by a white police officer in one elementary school after complaints from a local police union. The Associated Press reported that the Broward County school board had moved to temporarily halt assignments and in-school discussions regarding "Ghost Boys" by Jewell Parker Rhode...

A 12-year-old Chicago boy with a toy weapon was gunned down by a racist cop who goes on to lie about it on the stand — it’s the premise of a fiction novel aimed at kids as young as 10 and being used in Broward schools, which has some local police and their supporters fuming.

Florida School Halts Use Of Book About A Black Boy’s Killing By Police A police union complained to the school district that the book "Ghost Boys" is anti-police “propaganda.” FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida school board is halting the use of a fictional book about a Black boy who is killed by a white officer after a police union complained to the school district that is anti-police “propaganda.” The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported the children’s fiction book “Ghost Boys” by Jewell Parker Rhodes was used in one fifth grade class at...