Sean C. Morgan
School District 55 will convene a “reconsideration committee,” tentatively on Wednesday, Feb. 5, to begin deciding the fate of a book that language arts teachers are using in their eighth-grade classes.
The nine-member committee, selected on Monday evening by the School Board (see related article on page 5), will submit a judgment on how to handle the young adult novel “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian,” by Sherman Alexie.
The…