“I am completely saddened. After a parent’s complaint, ‘The hill we climb’ has been banned and removed from a primary school,” she writes.
The parent who complained claims that the content is not “educational” and that the content is “hateful”. On the form the parent has filled in, the presenter Oprah Winfrey has also been listed as the author of the poetry collection, according to The Wrap.
In addition to Amanda Gorman’s book, three other books were removed, among them one about black history in the United States, one about the black poet Langston Hughes and one about the history of Cuba.