Owls, ketchup, dinosours and old ladies with cats are among a long list of taboos banned from US schoolbooks, reports JULIAN COMAN.
FICTIONAL tales involving dinosaurs, disobedient children, coffee, Irish-American policemen and “exemplary upper-class people of bygone days” are being excised from American schoolbooks, according to a newly-published study on classroom policy in the United States.
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