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[quote=Anonymous]I taught at a suburban high school where an AP Literature teacher taught The Help. (Can you imagine an AP exam essay in which a student uses "The Help" as their answer, OMG.) The average teacher in our department was enthusiastic and well-meaning, but they weren't all highly intelligent. We had some things we HAD to teach . . . a Shakespeare play, the research paper. Some teachers would show the movie instead of reading through the play, and they would assign a "group poster" instead of a research paper. They would brag about these "short cuts" in department meetings, like haha, they got one over on the curriculum requirements! Um . . .

It should be little surprise that I had a reputation for being a hard-a$$, lol. I taught a novel or play and required a major writing assignment every nine weeks.

I've been pleasantly surprised that my kids' middle school language arts classes in Richmond Public Schools are reading appropriately challenging works. To be fair, in order to mitigate learning losses, they've doubled the class time for English and math, so there's plenty of time to read. But in the district where I taught, it wouldn't have mattered because we had very few novels to choose from and someone was always using the novel you wanted. I honestly still have dreams about trying to find the books I need to teach and I've been retired for over ten years![/quote]

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