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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parent here. Have been mostly happy w GDS HS english and related faculty.

This fall, one of the HS grades as started out by studying the following topics:

Queer Studies, CRT, Marxist Theory, Intersectionality, Structuralism Theory

Serious old person question - why are these taught in ENGLISH rather than in a special elective class? Isn't english for the study of literature. I get it - literature is a window into humanity....but really? I also get it - it's GDS but this is a core class all students must take.

And there was even an op-ed in student paper last week from a student very unhappy with the single-minded bias faculty show and the lack of oxygen they provide for dissenting views.

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All of those topics could be taught outside literature in history or sociology, but I expect that college-level literature courses are using those as some of several analytical viewpoints, so GDS wants their students to be familiar with them, just like they would other viewpoints like heroic sagas, classical tragedies, etc.

Literary analysis is more complicated and diverse than it used to be.[/quote]

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