Tennessee Board of Education Votes to Ban New York City

Upon a Tennessee county board of education banning Art Spiegelman’s Maus

The County Board of Education met in a called meeting this week.
The transcript is as follows:

Director Brad Towson — Terry Brown came by my office Monday to talk about the rough language he overheard in New York City when they went to see Lion King. We decided the best way to get rid of the 12 curse words is to redact them.

Wendy Jones, Board member — That’s more than Maus and New Kid, combined.

Marjorie Walker, Supervisor of Curriculum and Instruction — How do you redact a word someone says out loud?

Terry Brown, Board Chairman — Can we use the metaverse to bleep it? Can we blur or white out inappropriate behavior?

Brad Towson–We can request that the Tennessee Department of Education add virtual reality software to the budget, and donate 8.5 million VR visors to the City of New York.

Steve Taylor, Board member — That’s not an immediate fix. Is there a substitute for New York? Who developed it? Who approved it? Let’s form a task force, unless we’re all ready to vote at this time. Can we just make New York not exist, to have never existed at all?