*Lord of the Flies* is the 9th grade reading for Wilson. sigh.

[Anonymous]

We are excited for our child to start at Wilson. But this just took the wind out of my sails. DD read this in her DCPS 7th grade (maybe even 6th?) class. So not only is it not particularly challenging, it's also such a boring, old school choice. I hope the entire curriculum won't be like this. I assume that high schools have progressed since I was a student 25 years ago?

[Anonymous]

That is an odd point to hang your judgement of a school on.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, agree with 12:51. That's not what is going ot are or break Wilson for you.

That said, there was a thread recently that suggested parents pull up other school's summer reading lists for ideas. I definitely got a streak of jealousy when I read the summer reading list for St Anselm's, though I'd say it skews heavily toward the classics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, agree with 12:51. That's not what is going ot are or break Wilson for you.

That said, there was a thread recently that suggested parents pull up other school's summer reading lists for ideas. I definitely got a streak of jealousy when I read the summer reading list for St Anselm's, though I'd say it skews heavily toward the classics.

I just googled it based on this comment and apparently LotF is on the 8th grade reading list for St. Anselm's. So, after OP's daughter read it in DCPS. ¯\_(?)_/¯

[Anonymous]

So?

My kids are advanced readers and still get something out of revisiting books.

[Anonymous]

It’s not just reading the book. It’s an in-depth analysis.

[Anonymous]

Op, I sympathize with you. Perhaps check with your local library or check online to see if they have a list of suggested summer readings?

For example I work in DC but DD attends MCPS, via a simple search I found that the MCPL has a list of recommended books by grade level. https://montgomerycountymd.libguides.com/readinglistsbygrade

My DD will be attending Churchill so the school has posted the summer recommended list awhile back. We were told that once school officially starts in the fall that students would read more classics as the year progresses. However, students taking AP Literature and Composition and any other AP classes will have been emailed a special class code to begin their assignments via Google Classroom. Maybe this is similar for Wilson? Perhaps next summer your child will have access to those special code class assignments.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1S4sUePTdvqhlrTGH5RdiBqf_vpKEPad4SAq_Fs-0XgA/edit

[Anonymous]

It crazy to me that people don’t understand teaching a book in 7th is vastly different than teaching thatvsame book on HS.

Jeff we need a head in palm emoji!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It crazy to me that people don’t understand teaching a book in 7th is vastly different than teaching thatvsame book on HS.

Jeff we need a head in palm emoji!

Imagine rereading a book when older and the perspective you may gain. Every child should be required to do that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It crazy to me that people don’t understand teaching a book in 7th is vastly different than teaching thatvsame book on HS.

Jeff we need a head in palm emoji!

Imagine rereading a book when older and the perspective you may gain. Every child should be required to do that.

+1000

Also read them again when your kids read it... great discussions and you will gain a new perspective.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It crazy to me that people don’t understand teaching a book in 7th is vastly different than teaching thatvsame book on HS.

Jeff we need a head in palm emoji!

Imagine rereading a book when older and the perspective you may gain. Every child should be required to do that.

Especially after having lived through Lord of the Flies in DCPS MS.

[Anonymous]

I may be in the minority here but I don't think that students should be assigned a title to re-read a book in high school that they have read in middle school. Re-reading is great outside of school on your own time, but students should be exposed to various different genres and classics as much as possible. Too much re-reading doesn't allow for that exposure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I may be in the minority here but I don't think that students should be assigned a title to re-read a book in high school that they have read in middle school. Re-reading is great outside of school on your own time, but students should be exposed to various different genres and classics as much as possible. Too much re-reading doesn't allow for that exposure.

You're not in the minority. People are just trying to come up with a good reason for the same book to be assigned twice when it was very likely just an oversight. Public school offers a very limited time to expose kids to the breadth of available great literature -- the idea that they should re-read the same books every couple of years in order to see if they've gained any wisdom in the interim rather than read a wider array of books is asinine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It crazy to me that people don’t understand teaching a book in 7th is vastly different than teaching thatvsame book on HS.

Jeff we need a head in palm emoji!

Imagine rereading a book when older and the perspective you may gain. Every child should be required to do that.

Especially after having lived through Lord of the Flies in DCPS MS.

My kid's DCPS MS experience couldn't have been further from this. In fact, having attended pretty tough schools as a kid a million years ago, I sometimes can't relate to my high school athlete son who has never been bullied or teased or hazed on a sports team and never been in a fist fight in 11 years of DCPS.

Are you a DCPS parent who had a different experience, or are you just some random @sshole?

[Anonymous]

I think it is an excellent book.