In an interview on Fox Business’s Varney & Co., Campus Reform Higher Education Fellow Nicholas Giordano weighed in on the controversy surrounding a teacher’s firing for reading a graphic adaptation of Anne Frank’s diary to eighth-grade students. Giordano criticized American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten for distorting the story and making it appear as if book bans were taking place in schools.
He argued that the graphic adaptation “weakens and cheapens” the story of Anne Frank, and that eighth graders should be reading the original text to engage in critical thinking. Giordano emphasized that the issue could have been easily resolved by replacing the graphic adaptation with the original text.