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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The minstrel show scene has ruined ELA class for enough AA and biracial ES kids. 
Her book has been used to bully Native American children.
There are other books about prairie and settler life without racism to justify removing the book from required reading. [/quote]

Required reading?  You had to read these books in school?

This thread has wandered far afield.[/quote]

It hasn’t wandered far afield just because people are expressing perspectives you disagree with.  Yes, in some schools, Laura Ingalls Wilder was required reading as part of history lessons, less so now, obviously because people are more congnizant of the racist parts of the book.[/quote]

No, OP here.

It is wandering so far afield because someone must have reported the original thread and asked Jeff to move it to entertainment.

I originally posted in Elementary Education, just so we could discuss this broader issue and how it relates to our kids.[/quote]

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