“Stuff Some Adults Don’t Want You to Read” at Langley

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02/16/2022 09:42

Subject: Re:“Stuff Some Adults Don’t Want You to Read” at Langley

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Anonymous wrote:This is yet another way that schools are making it an us (parents) versus them (adults in schools) mentality. Perpetuating the notion our kids, while at school, are independent and unaccountable to their parents is troubling. Or, at the worst indefensible, when "teaching" that their parents are morally wrong or "bad" because parents beliefs are counter to what is being normalized at school. I do not want to dictate what schools teach my kids, I just want schools to reiterate to our children that parents have the biggest stake in their lives. And, no matter what, their parents and what their parents provide, encourage, and instill in kids are the biggest indicators of success - not replaceable by anything a school can, nor should, do for children. Parenting is hard enough these days without having to fight and counter what adults, who are not in any way (legally, financially, emotionally) responsible for our children, are "teaching."

https://fordhaminstitute.org/national/commentary/educations-enduring-love-affair-luxury-beliefs

What values are you trying to instill in your kids that conflict with them reading Maus?

Not the PP you’re quoting but give the reasons Maus was removed from school, I suppose I sorta am. https://m.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-696465/amp

So your big problem with Maus is that the son uses profanity to express his anger and grief over his mother committing suicide and his father burning his mother’s journals after her death? That kind of effort to control and suppress a kid’s emotions typically doesn’t work out very well.

I don’t have a “big problem” with Maus. I would let my kids read it, absolutely. But does it reflect the “values” I would want to teach my kids? Not really. It’s a story of big ugly generational trauma and conflict.

And it’s one that really happened. I wish I could find the article I read recently about how the ongoing efforts in this country to sanitize the Holocaust and make it more palatable by finding stories of redemption do not honor the millions of people who suffered and died in the Holocaust, and do a disservice to our understanding and appreciation of history. It was really powerful. Your kid should understand how horrific the Holocaust actually was and therefore why it is so important that we make sure nothing like that happens again.

I mean really, let’s think about The Boy in the Striped Pajamas for a minute. Most children were killed upon arrival at Auschwitz and the ones that weren’t generally didn’t have freedom to go wandering around unpatrolled areas of the camp, so how likely is it that this German boy would have come into contact with a Jewish boy through a fence at all, let alone repeatedly to build a friendship? And then in the end we’re supposed to sympathize with the Nazi family because they only begin to recognize the atrocities they have committed when they realize it cost them their own child? It is offensive.