School Pulls Nintendo Power with Chinatown Wars Cover
He thought of it as inappropriate for a middle school audience, since the figure on the cover was brandishing a gun and the cover itself promoted an M-rated game. The librarian reportedly objected on the grounds that a policy is in place to remove a publication, which includes submitting a form to the school board. The school board itself backed up the principal, saying that policy was in place for members of the general public.
Then the ACLU got involved. "Literature should not be removed from a school library simply because one person may find it inappropriate," said Christine Link of the ACLU. Jeff Gasmo, the ACLU legal director, warns against one authority figure acting on his own. "The principal doesn't get to say, 'Whatever I say goes,'" he said. "There's got to be some mechanism by which decisions are made and a process of review. Or maybe tomorrow it'll be Hamlet -- that's an iffy play."
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