Independent News Is Chekhov too racy for high-school students? Is Isaac Bashevis Singer too Jewish?

It seems New York state's board of education thinks so, because its members have been going through the works of eminent authors and excising all references to race, religion, ethnicity, sex, nudity, alcohol, drugs, bad language and anything else that might cause offence to anyone.

This ham-fisted attempt at political correctness has nevertheless ended up causing enormous offence