‘White Saviour’ Narrative Cited for School Ban on ‘To Kill a Mockingbird

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The seminal work To Kill A Mockingbird will no longer be taught at a secondary school in Scotland after teachers claimed the book promotes a “white saviour” narrative.

Classrooms at James Gillespie High School in Edinburgh will be denied the novel as wider plans to “decolonise the curriculum” gather pace amid concerns over its “dated” approach to race, according to the Daily Telegraph.

The 1960 work tells the story of a black man in Alabama who is falsely accused of rape by the town’s citizens and later defended by a white lawyer, Atticus Finch.

The book was made into a movie in 1962 starring Gregory Peck as Finch and Mary Badham as Scout and met with almost universal acclaim.

John Steinbeck’s classic novel Of Mice and Men is also being dropped over its use of the N-word, according to Allan Crosbie, the school’s head of English.

The Telegraph says Crosbie informed an online meeting with the Educational Institue of Scotland (EIS), Scotland’s largest teaching union, the move seeks to address the “dated” context of the book.

“Probably like every English department in the country, we still have Of Mice and Men and To Kill a Mockingbird [on] the shelves,” he admitted, before explaining why they will have a diminished position on the school syllabus: