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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Btw PP, you are trying to argue that books with White authors should account for 88% of the MCPS curriculum in a school system that is 25% White. Do you not see how you are upholding White supremacy?[/quote]

Your post implies that we need to introduce more Black and Brown authors simply because the percentage of Black and Brown students in MCPS is larger.  That is also ridiculous.

My MS kid read 'The Pact' last year, likely to fulfill some quota of books about/by Black authors.  It was trash.  Poorly written and crap.  I can guarantee you that MCPS is not doing Black and Brown kids any favors by pushing books like this on our kids.  The White and Asian parents will still make sure their kids get a good education, whether it's in private school or supplementing outside of school.  And, those kids, or the kids in the 'better' clusters are still reading the classics.

Quit the hyperfocus on race, and percentage of racial makeups, and all of this nonsense.  Expect excellence, or at least expect competence, from kids of ALL races.  [/quote]

Your post implies books written by White authors are better than those written by POC.[/quote]

Nope.  Not implying or saying that at all.

I want kids to read well-written books.  Regardless of the race of the author.

Having kids read crap books just to ensure they are reading ‘diverse’ books doesn’t do them any favors.  The kids are just missing out on reading the books that more ‘well-educated’ kids will have read.  [/quote]

I mean you have pretty much said that to be "well-educated" kids need to read books written by White authors. We all know what you are saying. Also you don't think children of color need to read books by authors of color. That's simply not true.[/quote]

Like it or not, there are books that well educated people are at least familiar with. The classics were mostly written by white men and being educated means at least being familiar with them. That doesn't mean that kids shouldn't have to read books by authors of color, but it does mean that kids are going to have to suffer through Shakespeare and Melville [/quote]

Look I've read Shakespeare and Melville, and frankly have retained very little. You aren't giving a reason for requiring them, except that White people like them.[/quote]

Take it up with all the English ‘experts’ who have decided that certain books are ‘classics’.  That’s just how it is.  And different countries have different authors that they hold up as excellent writers.

I’m not looking to argue about whether White authors write better or not.  I certainly don’t think that is the case.

But, like it or not, there are certain classics that kids should read.  You can argue that those books are terrible and kids shouldn’t be required to read them.  However, ad long as that is the case (that certain books are considered a sign of being ‘well-educated’), you are doing Black and Brown kids a disservice by not offering them in the curriculum.  [/quote]
"experts" being other white males?  :roll: [/quote]

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