A school in Florida has put the kibosh on its younger students reading Amanda Gorman’s powerful poem — the one she read at PresidentJoe Biden‘s inauguration — after one parent claimed it was riddled with hate … also claiming it was penned by Oprah.
The Bob Graham Education Center in Miami Lakes imposed the prohibition on Gorman’s “The Hill We Climb,” making it available only to middle schoolers at the K-8 school.
Daily Salinas, the complaining parent, filed a complaint in March, claiming the poem could cause “confusion and indoctrinate students” with “hate messages” … adding a specious claim Oprah was the writer and not Gorman.
1/20/21After learning about the ban, the 25-year-old poet took to social media to call out Salinas … saying, “So they ban my book from young readers… fail to specify what parts of my poetry they object to, refuse to read any reviews, and offer no alternatives.” She says she’s “gutted” that it takes only 1 complaint to get works of art removed.
