‘Mockingbird’ Pecks Its Way Off Banned List

“To Kill a Mockingbird” will once again be on the freshman reading list at Muskogee High School in Oklahoma.

The school board voted to reverse a decision removing Harper Lee’s 1960 novel from the list.

Principal Terry Saul dropped “Mockingbird” after complaints from black students and parents about racial slurs in the text.

Assistant Principal Dan Hattaway said a review of the reading list found that “all the books use some language that shouldn’t be used in school. But if you threw out everything that was objectionable to people, we’d . . . all be reading Dr. Seuss.”