Eric Grant, Head of 6-12 English Language Arts Curriculum for Buncombe County Schools\u00a0 Transcript<\/a><\/p>\n Stacia Harris, Head of Communications and Marketing for Buncombe County Schools, and<\/p>\n Dr. Samantha Sircy, Principal of North Buncombe High School\u00a0 Transcript<\/a><\/p>\n These individuals were not involved in the North Buncombe High School challenge against The Bluest Eye\u00a0<\/em>in fall 2017. We interviewed them to gather insight based on their professional expertise in library science, studies on Toni Morrison, or, in Lisa Baldwin’s case, past involvement with the Buncombe County School Board and prior book challenges.<\/strong><\/p>\n Dr. Deborah James, Toni Morrison Scholar and Professor of Literature at UNCA\u00a0 Transcript<\/a><\/p>\n Lisa Baldwin, Buncombe County parent, former member of the Buncombe County School Board, and host and writer of the blog Buncombe Students First<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0Transcript<\/a><\/p>\n Gene Hyde, Head Archivist at UNCA’s Ramsey Library\u00a0\u00a0Transcript<\/a><\/p>\n Amanda Glenn-Bradley, Research Librarian at UNCA’s Ramsey Library\u00a0 Transcript<\/a><\/p>\n Ken Miller, Librarian at Pack Memorial Library\u00a0 Transcript<\/a><\/p>\n We had originally hoped to interview the teacher who assigned\u00a0The Bluest Eye<\/em> as well as the complaining parent, Tim Cooley, however we were unable to get contact information for the teacher, and efforts to contact Tim Cooley were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Buncombe County Schools Employees Eric Grant, Head of 6-12 English Language Arts Curriculum for Buncombe County Schools\u00a0 Transcript Stacia Harris, Head of Communications and Marketing for Buncombe County Schools, and Dr. Samantha Sircy, Principal of North Buncombe High School\u00a0 Transcript Other People Interviewed These individuals were not involved in the\u2026 Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-68","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burn.coplacdigital.org\/unca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/burn.coplacdigital.org\/unca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/burn.coplacdigital.org\/unca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burn.coplacdigital.org\/unca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burn.coplacdigital.org\/unca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/burn.coplacdigital.org\/unca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"https:\/\/burn.coplacdigital.org\/unca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burn.coplacdigital.org\/unca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Other People Interviewed<\/h2>\n