New Rochelle High School, which is a high school over in New Rochelle, New York…is censoring adult content from the novels that students are supposed to read for homework assignments.
“Girl, Interrupted” which is a novel about a woman named Susanna Kaysen who has been sent to a mental hospital for having a borderline personality disorder, while there, she befriends another young woman named Lisa Rowe. The novel was written by Susanna Kaysen herself, which tells her real life story, the novel was later made into a film that stars Angelina Jolie and Winona Ryder.
New Rochelle High is so disgusted by the adult content in the book that they are ripping out a lot of pages, any pages that has strong language and strong sexual content, out rips a page.
Read more on this madness here:
http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/new-rochelle-school-district-censors-pa
Susanna Kaysen herself won’t be happy when she hears about this! She is 60 years old now and she is still alive and well from my understanding.
What the hell is the book doing at a high school to begin with? It shouldn’t even be there if they are so offended by it. Getting rid of the book is better than ripping out pages.
I hope Susanna fights for her work and sues that damn school!!!! “Girl, Interrupted” is one of my favorite movies though, I never read the book yet.
Kev
K'Brocking 
Just a note- the book was first censored for one class in 2001, apparently a health class, I don’t agree with what was done, but for that class it was focusing on the mental issues at hand. Another class, a film class, was using the book. It’s a senior course so one would assume most students would be 17, so they could see the movie if they wanted to on their own- and honestly the material at question isn’t new to high school students. Unfortunately it isn’t new to middle school students. If you want to say that the book shouldn’t be there for it’s offensive content and that it is too racy for high school students I suggest people go back and read Catcher in the Rye- a book that is considered a classic and pretty much a book you can’t get out of high school without reading, I would think that had a racy scene or two…
Just a note- the book was first censored for one class in 2001, apparently a health class, I don’t agree with what was done, but for that class it was focusing on the mental issues at hand. Another class, a film class, was using the book. It’s a senior course so one would assume most students would be 17, so they could see the movie if they wanted to on their own- and honestly the material at question isn’t new to high school students. Unfortunately it isn’t new to middle school students. If you want to say that the book shouldn’t be there for it’s offensive content and that it is too racy for high school students I suggest people go back and read Catcher in the Rye- a book that is considered a classic and pretty much a book you can’t get out of high school without reading, I would think that had a racy scene or two…