Amanda Gorman on her inauguration poem being banned from Miami school: 'I am gutted'
by Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times
May 23, 2023
3 minutes
Bob Graham Education Center, a K-8 school in Miami-Dade County, restricted access to Amanda Gorman's acclaimed poem "The Hill We Climb," which she read at President Biden's inauguration, for elementary-aged students after a parent issued a formal complaint on the grounds that the poem was "not educational" and included indirect "hate messages."
A committee reviewed "The Hill We Climb" based on a single complaint, provided to the Los Angeles Times by the Florida Freedom to Read Project, a parent-driven organization defending student access to information and ideas.
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