Culpeper, located approximately 70 miles southwest of Washington, D.C., has a school district that serves 7,600 students, according to The Washington Post.
The widely-read diary -- often assigned to middle school students -- details the life of Anne Frank, who lived in a "Secret Annex" from July 1942 until August 1944. The annex was discovered by the Nazis and Frank was sent to her death in a concentration camp. The sole survivor of the family, Otto Frank, originally published an edited diary in 1947.

Last fall, after students had read the book, a parent complained in person to school authorities about "the sexual nature of the vagina passage," the Star-Exponent reports.

Jim Allen, the school district's director of instruction, tells the Star-Exponent that "school officials immediately chose to pull this version and use an alternative copy." The "school system did not follow its own policy for handling complaints about instructional materials," the Post reports.

The Star-Exponent details the district's process for removing a book, which includes receiving a written complaint, convening a committee and making a recommendation.

In a follow-up e-mail to the Star-Exponent, Bobbi Johnson, the district's superintendent, defended its decision.

"The essence of the story, the struggle of a young girl faced with horrible atrocities, is not lost by editing the few pages that speak to adolescent discovery of intimate feelings," she writes.

"CCPS never fails to disappoint me," is a sample of the reader reactions on the Culpeper Star-Exponent Web site. Much of the response has been against the substitution.

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