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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wonder if your kid is in school with mine.  He is also an 8th grader reading the hobbit.   They did animal farm either last semester or last spring.  I think they did a sci fi type disaster story too.  I think you are hyper focusing on what your impression is of McPS.  It’s called confirmation bias.

With that said, I wish they would read more books and more classical literature.  I read the red badge of courage n middle school.  They are old enough for Shakespeare.  [/quote]

I have never understood why of all books in the world, The Red Badge of Courage and Of Mice and Men were required reading in middle school.

However, I was super pleased when my kid was reading Lord of the Flies at school and came home and said that there was a discussion in class where the teacher said that the book is about the universal human experience and somebody raised their hand and asked how it could be about the universal human experience when there are only boys and men in it. Which is true about The Hobbit too.[/quote]

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