Miami-Dade County’s mayor on Wednesday invited poet Amanda Gorman to read her work in the Miami area after a local K-8 public school decided the poem she delivered at Joe Biden’s inaugural ceremony wasn’t suitable for elementary school children.
Mayor Daniella Levine Cava doesn’t supervise county schools, so had no say over the decision by a Miami Lakes school to steer young students away from Gorman’s “The Hill We Climb.” The school, Bob Graham Education Center, limited the work to library shelves for middle school students after a review committee determined the poem on racial justice wasn’t appropriate for elementary students.
In a Twitter post responding to Gorman’s criticism of the decision, Levine Cava, a Democrat, said: “Your poem inspired our youth to become active participants in their government and to help shape the future.”
