Censorship Controversy
A Milton student's parent opposed the use of a novel, Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang, written by Joyce Carol Oates, in the grade 12 advanced English course, due to its themes of sexuality and violence, and the profane language used. This raised significant questions about the extent to which books used in high schools should be censored and Ontario's former education minister John Snobelen said that he sympathised with the group Parents Against Corrupt Teachers who lobbied the Halton board of education to remove Foxfire from the school.
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