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A Jacksonville mom felt forced to remove her son from Mayport Middle School after he became a target for bullies.
According to Duval County Public Schools data, 510 fights recorded last year at Duval County high schools or on buses involving those schools. When the I-TEAM compared data from the first 60 days of this school year to the same timeframe last school, it appears the district is on track to see roughly the same number of fights by the end of the year.
The school district hurriedly made arrangements last week to teach other accelerated classes. Now, schools have a choice.
Education authorities in the US county of Duval, in Florida, reject claims a book by renowned Australian children's author Mem Fox has been banned from classrooms, saying the work has instead been "approved" for school libraries and is not on a list of 21 "not-approved" titles.
Chamblin Bookmine Manager Abby Bell said it's heartbreaking that Florida has banned hundreds of books in an effort to censor what students learn about.