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May 9, 2021 GMT 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 an elementary school in Coral Springs, Florida, without going through the district’s vetting process. A school board member said assignments related to the book were on hold. “The timing of wh...

“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...