The tumult over the selection of two Pat Conroy novels for a Nitro High School Advanced Placement Literature Class has prompted a response from the author.
Conroy sent The Charleston Gazette a 900-word letter to the editor, telling its readers that "I have yet to meet an English teacher who assigned a book to damage a kid."
Praising the teachers and students who have rallied around his books, Conroy reserved his ire for the Kanahwa County school board as it weighs yanking them from class reading lists.
"You’ve now entered the ranks of censors, book-banners, and teacher-haters, and the word will spread," Conroy wrote. "Good teachers will avoid you as though you had cholera."
The Gazette has an article on the letter and its role in the ongoing debate.
24 October 2007
Incurring The Wrath of Conrack
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Someone should have told Conroy--- good teachers already avoid WV like the plague because of our low wages and idiotic teachers union.
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