Amanda Gorman, the young woman who recited a poem at President Joe Biden’s inauguration, is speaking out after the poem was moved at a library in a Florida school.
Miami-Dade County Public Schools moved “The Hill We Climb” from the elementary school section to the middle school section at a school library after one parent filed a formal objection to the work, the Miami Herald reported.
Gorman posted a response on Facebook calling for people to fight back against book bans.
According to the school district, the work was not banned, but it was “determined at the school that ‘The Hill We Climb’ is better suited for middle school students and it was shelved in the middle school section of the media center. The book remains available in the media center.”
The book was moved after the parent of a student at the school objected to the poem, erroneously listing Oprah Winfrey as the author/publisher, according to documents obtained by the Florida Freedom to Read Project.
It “is not educational and have (sic) indirectly hate messages,” the complaint read, adding that the poem would “cause confusion and indoctrinate students.”
The school, located in Miami Lakes, enrolls students from kindergarten through the eighth grade.
According to the Herald, two other works were also moved from the library’s elementary school section to the middle school section.
Below is a video of Gorman reading her poem at the inauguration: