An American School District Actually Burned This Famous Book in a Furnace

An American school district actually burned this famous book in a furnace

Bruce Severy, a full-bearded, idealistic 26-year-old, moved from Southern California in 1973 to the small town of Drake, North Dakota, where he had accepted a job teaching English at the public high school. He, his small family and their menagerie of pets settled into a large, white frame house across from the school.Severy’s progressive bent showed in the curriculum he taught. Insisting that his students should learn “how to think, not what to …

More Than 50 Years After a North Dakota School District Burned Copies of Kurt Vonnegut’s ‘Slaughterhouse‑Five,’ the Anti‑war Novel Is Still Being Censored - Bucks County Beacon

The battle over the novel offers a window into America’s long-running fight over what students should be allowed to read.

More than 50 years after a North Dakota school district burned copies of Kurt Vonnegut’s ‘Slaughterhouse-Five,’ the anti-war novel is still being censored

In the fall of 1973, North Dakota's Drake school district burned 32 copies of Kurt Vonnegut’s 'Slaughterhouse-Five' in a school furnace. Kristina Kokhanova/iStock via Getty ImagesBruce Severy, a full-bearded, idealistic 26-year-old, moved from Southern California in 1973 to the small town of Drake, North Dakota, where he had accepted a job teaching English at the public high school. He, his small family and their menagerie of pets settled into a…