If children cannot be exposed to the word without all hell breaking loose, then they should not be exposed to books that use the word. I'm not suggesting that Huck Finn must be taught in any classroom, only that, if it is taught, it should be taught the way it was written by a genius, not the way it was bowdlerized by a bureaucrat. I don't think you can have it both ways, i.e., insist that the book is too important not to be taught, but too unimportant not to be changed and edited.
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