That was the question at the heart of a dust-up earlier this year
between Charlotte/Mecklenburg Schools and parents concerned about the
age appropriateness of the book Maniac Magee, which was read by a third-grade class in the system. Details of the parents’ six-month
excursion into the red tape-laden bureaucracy before getting a
face-to-face meeting with school officials, were covered in a Carolina Journal story by Donna Martinez, which was recently republished by The Charlotte World.