Peel District School Board’s Misguided Crusade Against Beloved Literature

Commentary When I was 10 years old, I discovered Louisa May Alcott’s 1868 novel “Little Women.” From the very first line–“Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents”–I was hooked. Never mind that my Jewish family didn’t celebrate Christmas. The world of the lively March sisters, who sang and sewed together at the family hearth, captivated me precisely because it was so different from my own. Little did I know the “harm” it was causing. According to diversity bureaucrats in charge of libraries at Ontario’s second-largest school board, I should never have been allowed anywhere near my favourite book, because it says nothing about my own “lived experiences.”...