‘Maus’ is an Amazon bestseller after Tennessee school ban
There was no school ban. The district was using Maus (a graphic novel) in the curriculum to teach about the holocaust, and opted to search for an actual textbook to use in its place.<p>That&#x27;s all.<p>The comic book remains in the school library, and if they can&#x27;t find an actual textbook they&#x27;ll go back to the comic book. It was the right call.<p>The extreme freakout over this as well as hordes of sanctimonious diatribes that resulted is unfortunately common in our current social-media driven news cycle, where facts so often succumb to Narrative, in this case, the narrative being that a school does not want to teach the holocaust, rather than the fact that they don&#x27;t want to use a comic book to do it.<p>I like Maus, but would not rely on it as textbook, either.