Book Banned

I had been feeling rather dejected about our educational system until I read about Los Altos principal Don White and his parent advisory group banning Gary Kroeker’s “The Magi at Christmas” from the school library (Voices, April 25).

I have worked with school administrators and parents for over 30 years, and I have rarely seen a more clever way of stimulating interest in a book. Even though the principal and the parents weren’t so good at figuring out the theme of the novel, their knowledge of human nature is faultless. The trouble they took to promote “The Magi at Christmas” to those students who otherwise would not have read it shows what can be done for the cause of literacy when parents and administrators work together.

MORGAN HIGGINS

Burbank