Book banning backlash

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Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland Feb 6, 2018

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h2><p>Volunteers have raised the money to give 350 copies of the Sherman Alexie book to students in Idaho's Meridian School District, which recently banned "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian." Seattlepi.com reports that University of Washington student Sara Baker and a Spokane</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/joe-copeland-crosscut-com/">Joe Copeland</a></p> 
              <p><time datetime="2025-02-04T05:00:00-08:00">Feb 6, 2018</time></p>
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            <p>Volunteers have raised the money to give 350 copies of the Sherman Alexie book to students in Idaho's Meridian School District, which recently banned "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian." <a href="http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2014/04/16/idaho-students-to-get-copies-of-sherman-alexie-novel-banned-from-curriculum/?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">Seattlepi.com</a> reports that University of Washington student Sara Baker and a Spokane friend, Jennifer Lott, have reached their fundraising goal and just have to work out details of the distribution. Why 350 copies? One book for each of the 350 Meridian students who protested their school board's inanity.</p>
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Volunteers have raised the money to give 350 copies of the Sherman Alexie book to students in Idaho's Meridian School District, which recently banned "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian." Seattlepi.com reports that University of Washington student Sara Baker and a Spokane friend, Jennifer Lott, have reached their fundraising goal and just have to work out details of the distribution. Why 350 copies? One book for each of the 350 Meridian students who protested their school board's inanity.

By Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland is the former senior editor&nbsp;for Crosscut, where he has been an editor since 2010. Before that, he was an editorial writer and columnist for the Seattle P-I and editorial page edi