As a rising freshman to Lugoff-Elgin High School, I would like to thank Chris Crutcher for writing an article entitled, “To the High School Students of the KCSD…” It made me aware of my own school district’s hypocrisy. What I am referring to is the fact that while the book “Angry Management” by Chris Crutcher was removed from my school reading list, it is still required of me to read and annotate John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men.” The reason “Angry Management” was removed was that a concerned parent named Douglas Berry felt that us kids were too delicate to handle all the expletives in Mr. Crutcher’s book.
Double standard for students' summer reading