There’s plenty to be angry about this week (see below), but first, the good stuff:
Tickets for The Angry Grammarian: A New Musical are now available for general on-sale! Don’t miss out—we run from March 8-16.
We’re less than $1,000 away from our $5,000 crowdfunding stretch goal! Can you help us get the rest of the way there?
Know any Philly-area teachers? We’re doing a one-day student matinee of The Angry Grammarian on Wednesday, March 13. If you’d like to bring students on the nerdiest musical field trip of their lifetime, email jeff@theangrygrammarian.com.
On to this week’s outrage.
There are plenty of reasons to be glad Gov. Ron DeSantis gave up running for president.
First on the list: Now he can go back home to Florida and return to the important work of banning dictionaries.
Yes, that’s actually happening.
In response to laws passed last year in Florida, the School District of Escambia County — which includes Pensacola, in the state’s northwest corner — removed more than 1,600 books from school libraries and placed them into storage.
Included in that sequester: Merriam-Webster’s Elementary Dictionary, The American Heritage Children’s Dictionary, and Webster’s Dictionary and Thesaurus for Students.
Also on the list: The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl, Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls, and William Golding’s Lord of the Flies.
While Florida has passed plenty of problematic legislation in recent years, the current controversy is a result of the state’s HB 1069, which prescribes what Florida students learn related to sex and gender (ideally: nothing at all) and how they learn it (ideally: while wearing potato sacks and puritan bonnets).
Read the full column at Inquirer.com.