The Guardian Newspaper (U.K.) - Suzanne Goldenberg refers to it as 'book banning.'

The Guardian article spread like wildfire over Europe -- and the World -- as the U.S. is often seen as hypocritical and overprotective in its approach to education of teenagers. - Editor's Note

"An Indiana teacher (Connie Heermann) who used a much lauded bestseller, The Freedom Writers Diary, to try to inspire under-performing high-school students has been suspended from her job without pay for 18 months.

The effective book ban by the school authorities in Perry Township has outraged teachers and education reformers.

Teachers' union officials say that a single board member objected to swearing in the book. The school board member allegedly persuaded the other six officials to ban Heermann from teaching the book. It remains available in school libraries.

Heermann and the union say there was no explicit ban on the book when she handed it out to pupils on November 15. But later that day she received an email from the board advising her not to teach the book. "That was the pivotal moment of my life, when I saw how my students were taken with the book, how they loved it, and then I am told not to let them read it? I said no," she said.

After being threatened with dismissal, Heermann was eventually suspended. The union is deciding whether to take the case to court.

The school board denies book banning and accuses Heermann of insubordination. Barbara Thompson, the school board president, wrote in an email yesterday: "She knew she had defied her supervisors' direction in her work an and that her defiance was 'insubordination' and 'neglect of duty'." (excerpt)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jul/03/schools.schoolsworldwide