“Rick” summer reading

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Anonymous wrote:The majority should not be held hostage to 1% or less of the population. Enough is enough.

You mean the one percent of parents who are homophobic/transphobic

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Anonymous wrote:It’s pretty disturbing grown adults feel a need for 11 year olds to be educated on their sexuality. Leave the kids alone.

Apparently you were never in middle school. Kids are aware. Hormones are everywhere. You can smell in the halls. (Or was that just more Axe?)

When I was 11, I was entering 6th grade, my last year of elementary school. Middle school was a world away. These kids are still 11 and prepubescent, even though we push them into middle school with kids who already smell like hormones and Axe.

It was in direct response to your comment. You were replying to the fact that kids are already aware of the issues in this book. You're trying to say 11 year olds are prepubescent and pushed in with middle school kids too soon, implying a book like this is too soon for them. Also, the world has changed since you were 11. Try and keep up.

That's because MCPS started talking about them in ES.

Talking about who? Talking about what?

MCPS starts introducing kids to the idea of being non-binary or trans in ES. There are boos available in the library and the librarians will sometimes choose these LGBQT-friendly books to read to the kids.

You’re delusional if you don’t think they know this without any help from mcps or a book. Join the rest of us in the real world.

So throughout history, there were all of these non-binary/trans people suffering in silence, and only now they have the freedom to burst forth? I think you are the one who is delusional to discount the impact of social sanction of these "conditions." Any troubled kid is now treated as "brave" and "cool," getting special attention from adults and peers at school and work if they articulate discomfort with the normal process of puberty and/or body self-image.

Ummm, yes actually. Do you think being trans is a new concept? People did suffer in silence. They didn’t have communities for support. That is the entire point of this book. Now people don’t have to suffer in silence, they can find supportive people to surround themselves with. And if you’re binary and straight, it teaches you to be empathetic to others. It’s not a how to manual on “how to be non-binary”. That wouldn’t work anyway if you knew anything about being trans and you sound so uneducated that I’m sure you haven’t spent a single moment researching. Be better.

Of course there were one in a million; that is not what we see now. Social contagion is real.

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Anonymous wrote:DD is going to Westland as a 7th grader and I emailed the school to ask whether this was a requirement. It is. Apparently they'll be discussing the book ad nauseam all year.

I'm as lefty as they come, but I greatly miss the days of classical education, and reading classical literature (with appropriate explanations on misogyny, historical stance against homosexuality, class systems, etc). Rick may be a valuable book to open children's minds, but it certainly is not well-written.

I wish Westland had more of a balance between modern culture and great writing.

Can someone explain to me the value of reading racist, misogynistic books? Beyond "we've always done it this way"

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DD is going to Westland as a 7th grader and I emailed the school to ask whether this was a requirement. It is. Apparently they'll be discussing the book ad nauseam all year.

I'm as lefty as they come, but I greatly miss the days of classical education, and reading classical literature (with appropriate explanations on misogyny, historical stance against homosexuality, class systems, etc). Rick may be a valuable book to open children's minds, but it certainly is not well-written.

I wish Westland had more of a balance between modern culture and great writing.

Your post is also not well written, since you inserted the extra hyphen there. Generally, we do not use a hyphen between an adverb and an adjective. We also don't use a hyphen between two adjectives when used as a predicate adjective. You should go back to school to learn how to write properly.

Always nice to see applied pedantry.

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Update: the reading is NOT required. Any lessons touching on the reading you can opt your child out of. Slides will be sent to parents in advance of such lessons.

Luckily the school is more tolerant of diversity and parental rights than many of you on this thread.

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Anonymous wrote:Update: the reading is NOT required. Any lessons touching on the reading you can opt your child out of. Slides will be sent to parents in advance of such lessons.

Luckily the school is more tolerant of diversity and parental rights than many of you on this thread.

No, unfortunately the school is just cow-towing to appease ignorant bigots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Update: the reading is NOT required. Any lessons touching on the reading you can opt your child out of. Slides will be sent to parents in advance of such lessons.

Luckily the school is more tolerant of diversity and parental rights than many of you on this thread.

Oh, that’s great. So glad parents were able to work something out. Reflects well on the principal that he/she was willing to listen to parent concerns.

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Anonymous wrote:Update: the reading is NOT required. Any lessons touching on the reading you can opt your child out of. Slides will be sent to parents in advance of such lessons.

Luckily the school is more tolerant of diversity and parental rights than many of you on this thread.

No, unfortunately the school is just cow-towing to appease ignorant bigots.

That paints a picture: A Tilden Timberwolf towing a cow!