TheBoost said:

Gaffer Tape said:

Stop listening to reactionary parents. Stop being so easily cowed by political correctness. Guess what? The role of schools is to EDUCATE, not WHITEWASH so-called objectionable content.

You do realize the public school are run by elected officials who are elected by the reactionary parents because they do these type of things?

I'm not disagreeing with you, but the problem is fundamental to the system.

Yes, I am aware of that. But, as you said, "the problem is fundamental to the system." Therefore, the system needs to be changed, not history, and not historical literature. I have read the introduction to the NewSouth edition (which, by the way, I think is exactly the kind of vague, nondescript, bland term I was afraid it would be labeled with) and found it to be exactly the kind of apologetic nonsense that's all about acquiescing to what's "comfortable" than what's reality. Personally, my fear is that schools and readers might flock to what's "comfortable" leading to the NewSouth edition becoming the mainstream edition, while the real story is relegated to academics or intelligentsia as some kind of historical relic. I do think it's a good idea to put Sawyer and Finn together, but I do think part of the motivation behind doing it in this edition was to provide a buffer. Notice how that decision is talked about in length before dropping the bombshell that the text has been edited.