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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]On the classics question, there is more to being educated that just reading books a bunch of old dead white men wrote.[/quote]

The classics are such a narrow range of human experience. They are best addresses in a history class as a way to study the values of the time periods in which they are written. [/quote]

This is just not true. They are classics because their themes are eternal and still relevant in our day and age
[b]While the books du jour they are replaced with - who knows if they will last?[/b][/quote]

What difference does that make? We can learn a lot from books even if they aren't books that stand the test of time and are read for decades. Students can learn relevant themes and experiences from books other than those written a hundred years ago by white men.[/quote]

Okay. What about The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, which, I believe, is from 1850? That has all the topics du joir of today: childhood abuse and trauma, an underdog story, etc with a dose of reputable primary source reporting about the reality of slavery and racism in America. That book is old an, yet, still relevant, beautifully written and should be required reading for all students. If op's kid can't handle fiction, can she handle truth?[/quote]

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