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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do think MCPS has gone very deep into many social justice/political topics in their choice of reading materials. As a contrast, I looked up the summer reading for incoming 6th graders in our old Brooklyn neighborhood. Much more innocuous than the mcps selections. [/quote]

They don't even have to be innocuous. How about good books? These books are being assigned precisely because of their subject matter, not because they're well written or worth reading.

When i think of all the actual **literature** I read by the time I had graduated from MCPS, it just makes me want to cry. These assignments are a joke.[/quote]

Rick got positive reviews from kirkus, school library journal and publishers weekly. [/quote]

For the ideas it’s pushing, not the quality of the writing.  How about some Hemingway instead?[/quote]

Have you read the book to determine it's quality or are you just assuming that a book about LGBT issues couldn't be quality literature?

How about any high quality books written by an author who is still alive? 🤔
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Why do they have to still be alive? We used to have must-read books that were the framework for our society -- the common denominators, the ones that made someone well-read, so that we were all on the same page, pun intended. Now it's just a random selection of books that come and go and are basically meaningless in two years.[/quote]

DP.  And you think that list of books shouldn’t have been updated at all in the last 50 years?  That nothing of value has been written since about the 1940s?  We can read old classics *and* incorporate more recent books of value.  [/quote]

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