There never was any reason to take the book out of schools. All that is required in those schools is teachers who are bright enough that they can explain to the students the real message in the story, and students who are bright enough to understand it.

But I guess that would just be asking too much, right? ;-) Impossible in modern America!

So let's not ask anyone to think. It's too hard. Let's just react to the official political trigger words of our time, regardless of context, regardless of the author's intention, and we'll all be "safe", won't we? Yup. Ignorance really IS bliss, by golly.

And while we're at it, let's remove the word "niggardly" from the dictionary too. You just can't be too safe these days.