I'm not for banning books of any kind, but I also don't want to see young children exposed to veiled political propaganda which would give them a mistaken impression of the world.  This is apparently just a child's reader, and as such does not address political issues, which children that age would have difficulty understanding anyway, but to put this issue in context, how would Jewish Americans, Holocaust survivors perhaps, feel about a child's reader that had children dressed in Hitler youth uniforms with swastikas on their arms?  You think the Jews in Miami would have a problem with that?  Communities do have some rights to set local standards, and that is a consideration in this case.

In addition let me take this opportunity to chastise those who run this blog, specifically T. Chris in this case, for wording something in a manner that gives a misapprehension to your readers, specifically mentioning Miami-Dade County school districts in reference to banned books like Mark Twain and JK Rowling's, and all the other books on the list posted in the link.  Are these books indeed banned in the Miami-Dade school district? At what level are some of these books banned, elementary?  High school?  Please be specific.  If it was not your intention to give this impression, then I think you should rewrite that passage.