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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh, my.  My favorite book ever.   So well written, and teaches timeless lessons about good and evil, love and loss, racism and differences, and all from the point of view of a child, with a good bit of humor thrown in.  I am white and never thought  that it would offend non-whites.  Live and learn.  I did read it to my kids because I don’t think it was in the curriculum at their boys’ school.[/quote]

It is a great book. For me, though, if you’re talking about a curriculum, it’s also about understanding the book in the context of the other books on the syllabus. As a kid, when I first read the book, I was excited about the perspective of the child — particularly an observant young girl — as well. As I got older, I was able to re-read it asking questions about how having the point of view of a young white girl impacted my perception of the other characters — and move on to other books with different perspectives and values.  OTH, if the reading list only includes a small number of Black characters and the point of view only includes white narrators, then, for me, that’s a problem on multiple levels.

Othello, Huckleberry Finn, Mocking Bird — are great works with a great teacher in the context of reading other great books with different points of view.  Without those things, the “lessons” learned could also be quite noxious. 
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