Should "Of Mice and Men" be banned from HS English classes?

No, I don't believe so.

[QUOTE="Quack_Attack"]Censorship is never right.BoonMaster14

They say the dreaded "n" word several times in the book. That seems to be the main complaint.

It's a good way to spark discussion about racism, and you can get a lot of insight on the issue discussing this in English class. I enjoyed it. We read it in eleventh grade. It was a good book, but I wish they taught more modern literature in high school. 

this is the book im studying for my literature gcse which im taking in two weeks i see nothing wrong with it

btw what age do you guys study this book?

we study it at 14-16 and then get tested on it apart of our gcse english 

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[QUOTE="Quack_Attack"]Censorship is never right.Quack_Attack

They say the dreaded "n" word several times in the book. That seems to be the main complaint.

so, it's still a great book - that was mark twain and stephen kings' favorite word I think

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[QUOTE="Quack_Attack"]Censorship is never right.Celldrax

I agree with this guy.

I agree with this next guy. 

This seems like an attempt on behalf of white folks to slowly erase the awful actions of their past. Like it not, the stuff in that book was normal at a time (the racial stuff, obviously... not the whole plot :P) and no amount of censorship is going to change the fact that slavery DID happen and that chronic racism DID happen.Ninja-Vox

I thought it didn't have much to do with slavery.  It's been a while but wasn't it about Lenny and George?  Lenny was the slightly retarded guy that followed George around?  It was more a social commentary than a lesson on slavery.

I thought it didn't have much to do with slavery. It's been a while but wasn't it about Lenny and George? Lenny was the slightly retarded guy that followed George around? It was more a social commentary than a lesson on slavery.

sonicare

I know it had nothing to do with slavery. It did have massive racism within it however. I was just citing it as an example of how high-class people seem to want to wipe away any existance of how times once were. If a book has a white person freely refering to a black person with the dreaded N word, lord knows it must be destroyed. That's what these people seem to want.