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<p>PHILADELPHIA &#8212; A suburban Philadelphia school is removing &#8220;The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn&#8221; from its 11th grade curriculum, saying the language and portrayal of blacks makes students uncomfortable.</p><p><a href="http://mobile.philly.com/beta?wss=/philly/news&amp;id=361517741" target="_blank">The Philadelphia Inquirer reports</a> that Friends&#8217; Central School decided the &#8220;community costs&#8221; of reading Mark Twain&#8217;s 1885 classic outweigh the literary benefits.</p><p>Art Hall, principal of the school in Wynnewood, says the book&#8217;s use of racial slurs was &#8220;challenging for some students, who felt the school was not being inclusive.&#8221;</p><p>The school is guided by a Quaker philosophy.</p><p>The book about manners, race and rebellion in pre-Civil War has inspired controversy since its release 130 years ago. In 2011 an Alabama publisher replaced the offending word with &#8220;slave.&#8221;</p><p>A Twain biographer has called book&#8217;s slur the &#8220;ultimate teachable moment in American literature.&#8221;</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">This Feb. 23, 2010 photo shows a first edition &#8220;Adventures of Huckleberry Finn&#8221; book by Mark Twain at the Mark Twain Archive at Elmira College in Elmira, N.Y. A suburban Philadelphia school is removing &#8220;The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn&#8221; from its 11th grade curriculum, saying the language and portrayal of blacks makes students uncomfortable. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/web1_huckfinn.jpg</photo0><caption0>This Feb. 23, 2010 photo shows a first edition &#8220;Adventures of Huckleberry Finn&#8221; book by Mark Twain at the Mark Twain Archive at Elmira College in Elmira, N.Y. A suburban Philadelphia school is removing &#8220;The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn&#8221; from its 11th grade curriculum, saying the language and portrayal of blacks makes students uncomfortable. </caption0><photoCredit0>AP Photo | David Duprey </photoCredit0></div></div>
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Suburban Philadelphia high school removes ‘Huckleberry Finn’