I read Watchman. Atticus is bigoted. OMG...a person of that time period being a bigot?? No way! /s But he overcame his bigotry to do the right thing and give exceptional representation to a man who would not have received it otherwise.
IMHO, TKAM should be required reading. I'm sorry there is a bad word in the book. Maybe students should be taught to look as more than, what at the time was the acceptable word, and look at what the morality is.
Yeah...I'm a dreamer.