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A Florida School Restricted Access to Amanda Gorman’s Poem, But Didn’t ‘Ban’ It

A Florida School Restricted Access to Amanda Gorman’s Poem, But Didn’t ‘Ban’ It

Following a parent’s complaint, one K-8 school in Florida restricted access to a poem by Amanda Gorman that she had read at the 2021 presidential inauguration. The school moved the book in its library to a shelf for upper-grade students only. But social media posts falsely claimed Miami-Dade County had “banned” the book in all its elementary schools.