The Chicago Public Schools announced that they will be removing Marjane Satrapis graphic novel memoir Persopolis about growing up during the Iranian revolution from the shelves of seventh-grade classrooms and from the curriculum. The section in question is its portrayal of torture, which the Chicago Public Schools argues is too intense for seventh grade students to be exposed to but not eighth, ninth or tenth grade, The original ban also allowed AP students access to the book but not their non-AP peers. The idea that AP students are better placed to handle these scenes is a confusing double standard .
I read Persopolis some years ago, I dont remember any scenes of torture in the graphic novel that were terribly scarring or shocking, and none stand out in my mind. On the other hand I will never be able to erase the scenes of torture at the beginning of Zero Dark Thirty.
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