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Input: HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- One week after facing an official GOP reprimand for failing to oppose Common Core, Sen. Bill Holtzclaw is calling upon state educators to ban a novel used in conjunction with the national standards. 
  
 Holtzclaw objects to "The Bluest Eye," Toni Morrison's first novel, being included on high school reading lists. He said was unaware whether the book was in high school libraries, but that he would also support removal from school libraries. 
  
 "The book is just completely objectionable, from language to the content," said Holtzclaw, who points out the novel includes depictions of incest and child molestation. 
  
 The American Library Association lists "The Bluest Eye" as the 15th most commonly banned or challenged book in the United States from 2000 through 2009. Morrison, who released the novel in 1970, later won the Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize for literature. 
  
 Holtzclaw has said it's not the job of lawmakers to dictate curriculum standards to educators. This morning he said that he represents five local school districts and all five were in support of the new state standards for reading and math, which align with national Common Core. 
  
 So he did not support a bill calling for repeal of state standards. However, he also said he sees no value requiring students to encounter the graphic passages contained within "The Bluest Eye." 
  
 "I have told parents if you find something objectionable, I'll look at it and I'll listen to you and I'll lead the charge," said Holtzclaw, R-Madison, who kicked off his re-election bid on Tuesday at the Westin at Bridge Street. 
  
 He said his campaign will be focused on bringing more roads and jobs to North Alabama, with a particular emphasis on landing more federal jobs. 'There are going to be future BRACS," he said. "We're in a sweet spot and we need to continue to capitalize on that." 
  
 But last week Holtzclaw was thrust into the middle of a fray within the GOP, as the Madison County Republican Executive Committee censured state school board member Mary Scott Hunter for failing to fight against Common Core. 
  
 The local party prepared a similar censure of Holtzclaw, but ran out of time and did not vote on the censure. Some members have said his censure will come up again next month. But the chair of the Madison County Republican Executive Committee has since asked committee members refrain from speaking with the press. 
  
 Holztclaw said a constituent contacted him last week about "The Bluest Eye" in relation to Common Core. Holztclaw said he has since contacted State Superintendent Tommy Bice. The Alabama Department of Education was crafting a response and did not immediately reply to inquiries about Holtzclaw's concerns. 
  
 Holtzclaw said the state doesn't have to align with 100 percent of the Common Core standards, and can adjust the curriculum to suit Alabama's own standards. As for the Morrison novel, he said he hoped to "ensure that it's not on any reading list in the state of Alabama." 
  
 The book is commonly challenged over sex scenes, child abuse, profanity and difficult subject matter. 
  
 The novel was also included in Oprah's Book Club Collection, where it is described as: "Set in the author's girlhood hometown of Lorain Ohio, it tells the story of black, eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove. Pecola prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be as beautiful as beloved as all the blond, blue-eyed children in America." 
  
 Holtzclaw said he was not initially focused on removing the book from school libraries, but would probably support removal from library shelves. 
  
 "There is a slippery slope, and there are folks that will find objectionable material in widely accepted classic American literature," said Holtzclaw. "My goal with respect to this book is more along the lines if it is required reading." 
  
  
  
  
  
 For more: Alabama state school board member supports call for removal of 'The Bluest Eye,' says Common Core creates 'de facto national reading list' 
  
  
  
  ||||| Bowing to Tea Party pressure, Alabama State Senator Bill Holtzclaw said this week that he thinks The Bluest Eye, Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison's novel about a little black girl who wishes for blue eyes, should be banned in schools. He only made this statement after GOP members criticized him for opposing a repeal of the federal Common Core standards. The Bluest Eye is on the 11th grade reading list for the Common Core, a set of standards that has been adapted by more than 40 states. 
  
 Hotzclaw told the Alabama Media Group, "The book is just completely objectionable, from language to the content." The novel is seemingly the most controversial on the 11th grade reading list, and thus, an easy one to criticize — there have been efforts to ban it in schools and libraries since it was written in 1970. It does contain graphic scenes of forced sex (which the conservative blog Politichicks helpfully provided context-free in a post titled "(WARNING: Graphic) Common Core Approved Child Pornography"). 
  
 The Common Core is the federal Department of Education's effort to make American schools more competitive on the world stage and more standardized across states. It began as a bipartisan project — governors and state superintendents brought together a panel of experts to write the standards, which focus on critical thinking as opposed to rote memorization. 
  
 Now, however, Tea Party conservatives are rejecting the standards, claiming that the federal government should not intervene in how states run their schools. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said of the standards in June, “The federal government didn’t write them, didn’t approve them, and doesn’t mandate them. And we never will. Anyone who says otherwise is either misinformed or willfully misleading.” Of course, his assurances meant nothing to some. 
  
 By last summer, 45 states and the District of Columbia adopted the standards. Implementation has been rocky — the standardized tests associated with the Core are tough. Reports released in early August, for example, show that less than a third of New York students passed them this year. Still, Democrats think that with time, the standards will improve students' critical thinking and deep analysis skills. 
  
 So it seems that arguing about one book on one reading list in the Common Core isn't the best way to solve America's education program. Especially if that book was written by the last American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature — and that was a full two decades ago. Last year's prize went to a novelist from China, by the way. At least we have the VMAs. 
  
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 Allie Jones |||||
Output:
Horrified by its depictions of child molestation and incest, Alabama state Sen. Bill Holtzclaw is calling for Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye to be struck from all high school reading lists in the state. "The book is just completely objectionable, from language to content," Holtzclaw tells the Alabama Media Group. He also said he'd "probably" support removing it from school libraries. Federal "Common Core" standards list the Bluest Eye as a recommended book for 11th-graders. And that appears to be the real root of the controversy. Tea Party groups have been railing against Common Core recently as a big government intrusion, the Atlantic Wire explains. Hotzclaw has been under pressure from these groups since he opposed a bill to repeal the standards. With a long history of being banned or challenged, Morrison's book makes a convenient target. The conservative blog Politichicks recently posted a number of graphic quotes from it, under the headline "Common Core Approved Child Pornography."