The Florida Freedom to Read Project also shared a document containing a school materials review committee's recommendations for the titles in question. The complaint against Gorman's poem describes it as "not educational" and having indirect "hate messages." It also accuses the poem of seeking to "cause confusion and indoctrinate students." The complaints were filed by a parent of two students at the school. The Florida Freedom to Read Project, an organization dedicated to protecting "every student’s right to access information and ideas" per its website, shared the complaint filed against Gorman's poem as well as four other titles on the organization's Twitter account May 19. "Robbing children of the chance to find their voices in literature is a violation of their right to free thought and free speech." I've received countless letters and videos from children inspired by The Hill We Climb to write their own poems," Gorman wrote. "I wrote The Hill We Climb so that all young people could see themselves in a historical moment. The 25-year-old poet, who read her poem at President Joe Biden's inauguration in 2021 to wide acclaim, took to social media Tuesday to share that she is "gutted" about the Bob Graham Education Center restricting the availability of her poem to the middle school section of its media center after "one parent's complaint." Officials at the school did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Amanda Gorman is speaking out after access to her inaugural poem "The Hill We Climb" was restricted at a K-8 school in Florida.
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