The Confusion of Muskego "Educators"

So there's an AP English offering at Muskego High.  Good!!  Shakespeare, Dryden, Eliot, Forster, Donne, Frost, Dickinson, Twain, Faulkner.....like that, no?

No.

...The reading list for a Muskego High School English class has become a national talking point after district leaders said staff had to reconsider their selection of a book that delves into the U.S. incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.

District leaders have denied interview requests and issued a vague statement about why the book, “When the Emperor Was Divine” by Julie Otsuka, isn't moving forward as part of the Accelerated English curriculum. ...

We agree that a book about Franklin Delano Roosevelt's (D) internal prison camps (let's not forget his camp for Italians!!) is a valuable bit of education.  In fact, that experience is being repeated now, with the imprisonment of Americans over a trespassing offense or the crime of "disagreeing with Nancy and Joe."

But that's HISTORY, not English.

This is clearly a well-meant but horribly misplaced item.  Some history teacher over there should step up and make it part of the history curric.