Parents should be notified about students reading To Kill A Mockingbird because “it’s racially and sexually-charged themes are inappropriate for young readers” (Downs). Also, it has “profanity and racial slurs” and some people even describe it as “‘filthy’ and ‘trashy’” (Downs).
Parents should be notified about this because parents should have a right to veto it if they don’t think they’re children are ready to read the adult-level material present in To Kill a Mockingbird, like racism and rape. Many people think that “easily influenced children should not be exposed to books that include passages about rape, incest and bestiality” (Portnoy). In this