How many books was your seventh grader assigned in seventh grade English?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I find it unbelievable that people are refusing to believe there are 7th grade English public school classes where books aren’t assigned. Do you people know literally anything about educational inequality? Are you all that blind? This thread is mind-blowing in the ignorance shown.

I am one who posted upthread about my DC being assigned no reading. I don't care who believes me. It happened.

The weird thing is this is not a school that is lacking in high-achieving kids. Kids in prior years (friends' kids) had lots of reading. THey also have AAP now at the school, Honors, and "gen ed." My kid was in honors. Not a single assigned reading. Even The Outsiders (prior year reading) - they watched the movie instead.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When people say that their child read NO books in 7th grade English and do not name the school, it does seem very suspicious. Could some of the "no books" PPs name their schools? (Wouldn't you want to call them out?)

I don't, no. Because, what does it matter? But since you're such a nosy-pants, in our case it was Lanier (at the time it was Lanier).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Go to your local library and pick out novels. Select some classics. Why are some of you parents relying entirely on schools to do that? Prior to Christmas break, I had several classics ready. The school didn’t ask that I do that. Take responsibility instead of pouting and complaining.

It’s one thing to provide classics to your kids—I do, although they definitely prefer the YA stuff. What I’d like to see is a teacher guiding them through more difficult works of literature, leading discussions and assigning written analyses. They’re not going to do all that for me.

When my child’s public middle school assigned no books to read in 7th grade, I did two things: had my kids read outside of school and then moved all the younger kids to private school, where books are assigned in middle school. I imagine that other PPs whose kids weren’t assigned books did something similar.

But that only solved the problem for my own children who have parents that speak English, that can assign books outside, and that are able to afford private school. What about the kids who don’t? Why are you and other PPs okay with just writing off their educations? It is mind boggling to me that so many people in this thread are perfectly okay with the vast educational inequality here. Surely we can all agree that it’s not great that kids lucky enough to attend private schools or certain public schools learn the critical skills associated with reading a book (and excerpts do not teach the same skills) while other kids don’t get to access those skills. Why is this a remotely controversial position? I feel like posters are trying to be willfully blind about just how behind some public schools are, and it doesn’t make sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I find it unbelievable that people are refusing to believe there are 7th grade English public school classes where books aren’t assigned. Do you people know literally anything about educational inequality? Are you all that blind? This thread is mind-blowing in the ignorance shown.

I am one who posted upthread about my DC being assigned no reading. I don't care who believes me. It happened.

The weird thing is this is not a school that is lacking in high-achieving kids. Kids in prior years (friends' kids) had lots of reading. THey also have AAP now at the school, Honors, and "gen ed." My kid was in honors. Not a single assigned reading. Even The Outsiders (prior year reading) - they watched the movie instead.

You are hell-bent on getting validation and insulting people.

If you used the time and energy you’ve spent on here to do something about it, maybe something would get done.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I find it unbelievable that people are refusing to believe there are 7th grade English public school classes where books aren’t assigned. Do you people know literally anything about educational inequality? Are you all that blind? This thread is mind-blowing in the ignorance shown.

I am one who posted upthread about my DC being assigned no reading. I don't care who believes me. It happened.

The weird thing is this is not a school that is lacking in high-achieving kids. Kids in prior years (friends' kids) had lots of reading. THey also have AAP now at the school, Honors, and "gen ed." My kid was in honors. Not a single assigned reading. Even The Outsiders (prior year reading) - they watched the movie instead.

You are hell-bent on getting validation and insulting people.

If you used the time and energy you’ve spent on here to do something about it, maybe something would get done. [/quote
But you do care if people believe you with you continuous hijacking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I find it unbelievable that people are refusing to believe there are 7th grade English public school classes where books aren’t assigned. Do you people know literally anything about educational inequality? Are you all that blind? This thread is mind-blowing in the ignorance shown.

I am one who posted upthread about my DC being assigned no reading. I don't care who believes me. It happened.

The weird thing is this is not a school that is lacking in high-achieving kids. Kids in prior years (friends' kids) had lots of reading. THey also have AAP now at the school, Honors, and "gen ed." My kid was in honors. Not a single assigned reading. Even The Outsiders (prior year reading) - they watched the movie instead.

You are okay. It’s the illiterate PPs who claim you are lying that have serious issues. At this point in the thread I think that they don’t want kids to read books because they can’t read books themselves, so they don’t understand the necessary learning associated with reading books. It’s unfortunate, but I would ignore them (as it sounds like you are doing).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Go to your local library and pick out novels. Select some classics. Why are some of you parents relying entirely on schools to do that? Prior to Christmas break, I had several classics ready. The school didn’t ask that I do that. Take responsibility instead of pouting and complaining.

It’s one thing to provide classics to your kids—I do, although they definitely prefer the YA stuff. What I’d like to see is a teacher guiding them through more difficult works of literature, leading discussions and assigning written analyses. They’re not going to do all that for me.

When my child’s public middle school assigned no books to read in 7th grade, I did two things: had my kids read outside of school and then moved all the younger kids to private school, where books are assigned in middle school. I imagine that other PPs whose kids weren’t assigned books did something similar.

But that only solved the problem for my own children who have parents that speak English, that can assign books outside, and that are able to afford private school. What about the kids who don’t? Why are you and other PPs okay with just writing off their educations? It is mind boggling to me that so many people in this thread are perfectly okay with the vast educational inequality here. Surely we can all agree that it’s not great that kids lucky enough to attend private schools or certain public schools learn the critical skills associated with reading a book (and excerpts do not teach the same skills) while other kids don’t get to access those skills. Why is this a remotely controversial position? I feel like posters are trying to be willfully blind about just how behind some public schools are, and it doesn’t make sense.

Then why don’t you do something about it? Why are you pointing the finger at others to do it? You acknowledge it and are doing nothing, just typing about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I find it unbelievable that people are refusing to believe there are 7th grade English public school classes where books aren’t assigned. Do you people know literally anything about educational inequality? Are you all that blind? This thread is mind-blowing in the ignorance shown.

I am one who posted upthread about my DC being assigned no reading. I don't care who believes me. It happened.

The weird thing is this is not a school that is lacking in high-achieving kids. Kids in prior years (friends' kids) had lots of reading. THey also have AAP now at the school, Honors, and "gen ed." My kid was in honors. Not a single assigned reading. Even The Outsiders (prior year reading) - they watched the movie instead.

You are okay. It’s the illiterate PPs who claim you are lying that have serious issues. At this point in the thread I think that they don’t want kids to read books because they can’t read books themselves, so they don’t understand the necessary learning associated with reading books. It’s unfortunate, but I would ignore them (as it sounds like you are doing).

Bless your heart. We all know it’s you posting comments to your own comments.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I find it unbelievable that people are refusing to believe there are 7th grade English public school classes where books aren’t assigned. Do you people know literally anything about educational inequality? Are you all that blind? This thread is mind-blowing in the ignorance shown.

I am one who posted upthread about my DC being assigned no reading. I don't care who believes me. It happened.

The weird thing is this is not a school that is lacking in high-achieving kids. Kids in prior years (friends' kids) had lots of reading. THey also have AAP now at the school, Honors, and "gen ed." My kid was in honors. Not a single assigned reading. Even The Outsiders (prior year reading) - they watched the movie instead.

You are hell-bent on getting validation and insulting people.

If you used the time and energy you’ve spent on here to do something about it, maybe something would get done.

You are talking to multiple posters, FYI. I did not write the above, but you also made your absolutely bizarre claim about validation to one of my posts too. I think you are a sad troll at this point. I just can’t figure out what is driving your trolling. “Educational inequality doesn’t exist” is a unusual troll talking point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I find it unbelievable that people are refusing to believe there are 7th grade English public school classes where books aren’t assigned. Do you people know literally anything about educational inequality? Are you all that blind? This thread is mind-blowing in the ignorance shown.

I am one who posted upthread about my DC being assigned no reading. I don't care who believes me. It happened.

The weird thing is this is not a school that is lacking in high-achieving kids. Kids in prior years (friends' kids) had lots of reading. THey also have AAP now at the school, Honors, and "gen ed." My kid was in honors. Not a single assigned reading. Even The Outsiders (prior year reading) - they watched the movie instead.

You are okay. It’s the illiterate PPs who claim you are lying that have serious issues. At this point in the thread I think that they don’t want kids to read books because they can’t read books themselves, so they don’t understand the necessary learning associated with reading books. It’s unfortunate, but I would ignore them (as it sounds like you are doing).

OMG, would you stop hijacking? You tactic you gain sympathy is backfiring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I find it unbelievable that people are refusing to believe there are 7th grade English public school classes where books aren’t assigned. Do you people know literally anything about educational inequality? Are you all that blind? This thread is mind-blowing in the ignorance shown.

I am one who posted upthread about my DC being assigned no reading. I don't care who believes me. It happened.

The weird thing is this is not a school that is lacking in high-achieving kids. Kids in prior years (friends' kids) had lots of reading. THey also have AAP now at the school, Honors, and "gen ed." My kid was in honors. Not a single assigned reading. Even The Outsiders (prior year reading) - they watched the movie instead.

You are okay. It’s the illiterate PPs who claim you are lying that have serious issues. At this point in the thread I think that they don’t want kids to read books because they can’t read books themselves, so they don’t understand the necessary learning associated with reading books. It’s unfortunate, but I would ignore them (as it sounds like you are doing).

A quarter of americans over 18 read 0 books per year. Another 40-50% read 1-5 books a year.

Not reading doesn't make you illiterate. It just makes you the average American.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I find it unbelievable that people are refusing to believe there are 7th grade English public school classes where books aren’t assigned. Do you people know literally anything about educational inequality? Are you all that blind? This thread is mind-blowing in the ignorance shown.

I am one who posted upthread about my DC being assigned no reading. I don't care who believes me. It happened.

The weird thing is this is not a school that is lacking in high-achieving kids. Kids in prior years (friends' kids) had lots of reading. THey also have AAP now at the school, Honors, and "gen ed." My kid was in honors. Not a single assigned reading. Even The Outsiders (prior year reading) - they watched the movie instead.

You are hell-bent on getting validation and insulting people.

If you used the time and energy you’ve spent on here to do something about it, maybe something would get done.

You are talking to multiple posters, FYI. I did not write the above, but you also made your absolutely bizarre claim about validation to one of my posts too. I think you are a sad troll at this point. I just can’t figure out what is driving your trolling. “Educational inequality doesn’t exist” is a unusual troll talking point.

I thought you didn’t care if no one believed you?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I find it unbelievable that people are refusing to believe there are 7th grade English public school classes where books aren’t assigned. Do you people know literally anything about educational inequality? Are you all that blind? This thread is mind-blowing in the ignorance shown.

I am one who posted upthread about my DC being assigned no reading. I don't care who believes me. It happened.

The weird thing is this is not a school that is lacking in high-achieving kids. Kids in prior years (friends' kids) had lots of reading. THey also have AAP now at the school, Honors, and "gen ed." My kid was in honors. Not a single assigned reading. Even The Outsiders (prior year reading) - they watched the movie instead.

You are okay. It’s the illiterate PPs who claim you are lying that have serious issues. At this point in the thread I think that they don’t want kids to read books because they can’t read books themselves, so they don’t understand the necessary learning associated with reading books. It’s unfortunate, but I would ignore them (as it sounds like you are doing).

A quarter of americans over 18 read 0 books per year. Another 40-50% read 1-5 books a year.

Not reading doesn't make you illiterate. It just makes you the average American.

She’s just been throwing around juvenile insults because she is not getting validated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I find it unbelievable that people are refusing to believe there are 7th grade English public school classes where books aren’t assigned. Do you people know literally anything about educational inequality? Are you all that blind? This thread is mind-blowing in the ignorance shown.

I am one who posted upthread about my DC being assigned no reading. I don't care who believes me. It happened.

The weird thing is this is not a school that is lacking in high-achieving kids. Kids in prior years (friends' kids) had lots of reading. THey also have AAP now at the school, Honors, and "gen ed." My kid was in honors. Not a single assigned reading. Even The Outsiders (prior year reading) - they watched the movie instead.

You are hell-bent on getting validation and insulting people.

If you used the time and energy you’ve spent on here to do something about it, maybe something would get done.

You are talking to multiple posters, FYI. I did not write the above, but you also made your absolutely bizarre claim about validation to one of my posts too. I think you are a sad troll at this point. I just can’t figure out what is driving your trolling. “Educational inequality doesn’t exist” is a unusual troll talking point.

You could contact your school instead of typing your comments. Just a tip.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Go to your local library and pick out novels. Select some classics. Why are some of you parents relying entirely on schools to do that? Prior to Christmas break, I had several classics ready. The school didn’t ask that I do that. Take responsibility instead of pouting and complaining.

It’s one thing to provide classics to your kids—I do, although they definitely prefer the YA stuff. What I’d like to see is a teacher guiding them through more difficult works of literature, leading discussions and assigning written analyses. They’re not going to do all that for me.

When my child’s public middle school assigned no books to read in 7th grade, I did two things: had my kids read outside of school and then moved all the younger kids to private school, where books are assigned in middle school. I imagine that other PPs whose kids weren’t assigned books did something similar.

But that only solved the problem for my own children who have parents that speak English, that can assign books outside, and that are able to afford private school. What about the kids who don’t? Why are you and other PPs okay with just writing off their educations? It is mind boggling to me that so many people in this thread are perfectly okay with the vast educational inequality here. Surely we can all agree that it’s not great that kids lucky enough to attend private schools or certain public schools learn the critical skills associated with reading a book (and excerpts do not teach the same skills) while other kids don’t get to access those skills. Why is this a remotely controversial position? I feel like posters are trying to be willfully blind about just how behind some public schools are, and it doesn’t make sense.

Then why don’t you do something about it? Why are you pointing the finger at others to do it? You acknowledge it and are doing nothing, just typing about it.

Who says I’m not doing anything about it? I am doing far more than you, I’m sure. But that doesn’t take away the fact that this is a deeply problematic division.

Why do you need to pretend educational inequality doesn’t exist? In the face of enormous data showing that reality, in the face of years of academic work that show how widely different curriculums are across different public and private schools, why do you insist that isn’t true? I’m genuinely asking. I want to understand where you are coming from. Why are you so dug into a reality that doesn’t match the years and years of research on educational inequality?