Roanoke County Schools is examining whether a 10-year-old book should be allowed in the William Byrd High School library, following a complaint from a parent about the book’s content.
The book is called “Perks of Being a Wallflower.“ The school system says a teacher at the school gave the book to an 11th grade student in her English class, and then that student shared the book with a friend who is a boy.
The boy’s father, John Davis, is the one who made the complaint to William Byrd’s principal.
“I found some disturbing things in it,“ Davis told me.
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The Roanoke Times also ran an article on this topic Oct. 8.