He got into it over email with an AP English teacher from Loudoun County.

The Fairfax County School Board turned down a request by the mother of a former high-school student to stop including Toni Morrison’s acclaimed 1987 novel Beloved in Advanced Placement classes.

One of the greatest American novels of the past 30 years is giving a Fairfax County high-school student a bit of agita. Naturally, the kid’s mother wants it banned.