Do you really know what your kids are reading?

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Anonymous wrote:This is great. Think about what this is teaching you girls (and boys) about relationships. Adolescents do not have fully matured.... anything!

I would never choose to read this crap- ever. Why would I want my child to read it.

I agree.

And frankly, given the fact that many kids are being raised in a single parent home (or sometimes not even that) and without proper family values, I think there's real value in doing the total opposite and going back to classical literature with strong family values so that all kids have the chance to understand what a family is supposed to look and feel like, and how relationships are supposed to work. Assigned reading in class is the only chance that a lot of kids in this country would get to have awareness of real family and relationship values. It's appalling that we're taking that away from them.

Classical literature like Hamlet, Heart of Darkness, The Yellow Wallpaper? (All “classics” I read in school for the record.) Definitely some great family and social values to be learned from those…

At least you learn the English language reading those.

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Anonymous wrote:I couldn't get past 8 seconds. There was a thread recently discussing how the books for middle schoolers had rape, cutting, abuse, etc. one side was "wtf?" the other side was "your precious snowflake should know about these things".

Even if most middle schoolers know about some of those things, that’s completely different to normalizing it as every day occurrences in a school book.

Is stuff in a school book "normalized"? I read "A Rose for Emily" in school but that didn't normalize necrophilia.

This.

I'm never in favor of censoring or deciding for others what they should read or what is "trash" or what is "unacceptable." You don't want to have those books as assigned reading? That's fair. But to say the kids shouldn't be getting them from the library to read? No, sorry. That's going too far. Those decisions should be made by the kids and their family.

These folks were way to holier than thou. It oozed a Gilead-esque view that I am not comfortable with on any level.

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Are t we talking about MS here- so kids age is basically 11-13? Hard no in some of this stuff for me. Again HS is different. Public library and even school library for many, ok. Just nit the mandatory reading list.

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Anonymous wrote:Are t we talking about MS here- so kids age is basically 11-13? Hard no in some of this stuff for me. Again HS is different. Public library and even school library for many, ok. Just nit the mandatory reading list.

We're talking about high school. The linked video contains excerpts from two books: Monday's Not Coming (four excerpts) and #MurderTrending (one excerpt). Monday's Not Coming is recommended 13+ by the publisher and is in the diverse classroom libraries in Loudon County. #MurderTrending is not in the classroom libraries, and neither are books for middle schoolers.
source: https://www.loudountimes.com/news/loudoun-county-public-schools-parents-at-odds-over-dirty-books/article_278b79de-b90d-11eb-b275-1f3cb47dbff7.html#:~:text=Loudoun%20County%20Public%20Schools%20has,by%20Gretchen%20McNeil%20on%20Tuesday.

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Topics like rape, abuse, and other trauma are not just thought-provoking topics for some kids. You can’t just treat these topics like bugs you can examine.

For some kids, this is their reality. I don’t believe it’s right to make those kids read about those topics in class, and listen to their peers potentially be flippant about them. Teachers are not trained therapists.

Again, teachers are not trained therapists. I don’t think they should be leading discussions about these topics, just because they don’t know who has experienced what.

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OMG.

Are these same books purchased by, or recommended by, Fairfax County public schools?

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So when it’s stuff we want to cancel, do we still need to perform our cancel culture routine?

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Anonymous wrote:Topics like rape, abuse, and other trauma are not just thought-provoking topics for some kids. You can’t just treat these topics like bugs you can examine.

For some kids, this is their reality. I don’t believe it’s right to make those kids read about those topics in class, and listen to their peers potentially be flippant about them. Teachers are not trained therapists.

Again, teachers are not trained therapists. I don’t think they should be leading discussions about these topics, just because they don’t know who has experienced what.

Aren't these all choice-books, not the ones assigned to the group in class?

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I know he was reading the Walking Dead comic series because I kept asking his plot differences between TV and the comics.