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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]feeling like a naive parent today after another mentioned that most kids do not actually read the books in the summer. Do yours?[/quote]

We skipped it. I didn't like the list. Every book on it was some varation of "As a child, Ida Mae wanted to fly like her long-dead daddy. But as a black girl in 1940s Louisiana, she knew that was going to meet resistance." Or, "Larlo was like every other kid in the class, except he had autism."

Don't know [b]why the reading list can't just include some good stories [/b]instead of hit kids over the head with a social justice message.[/quote]

Because it helps them learn empathy.  Something perhaps they are not learning at home.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/novel-finding-reading-literary-fiction-improves-empathy/[/quote]

And those aren't good stories? They sound potentially interesting to me... Were the specific books not good stories in your opinion, or do you think that a heavy message detracts from a book?[/quote]

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