Why Is Britain Trying to Kill a Mockingbird?

British authorities are removing American classics from the syllabus and test of literature that British students take to show their ability to study literature, The Independent reported. Among the works being removed are To Kill a Mockingbird and Of Mice and Men. Reportedly the education secretary personally pushed for the shift, and the syllabus and exam will increasingly focus on British literature (excluding modern British literature). Bethan Marshall, a senior lecturer in English at King's College London, told The Sunday Times: “It's a syllabus out of the 1940s.... This will just grind children down.”