Another writer is modifying her book to quell online outrage

Published August 11, 2021 8:50pm ET



Kate Clanchy, a teacher and writer whose popular memoir has inspired readers for the past three years, now realizes she was wrong. Those words were not, in fact, inspiring. They were “racist” and “ableist.” At least, that’s what the internet says.

Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me publisher Picador Books (which, of course, has a virtue-signal rainbow in its Twitter profile image) announced this week Clanchy would work with the company to update the “problematic” work.

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