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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The reason TKAM was dropped was because a bunch of kids complained about having to read the n-word in 8th grade English class. Yes, you got that right, read it silently. The discussions of the book were basically overwhelmed by kids saying that they were traumatized, language is violence, blah blah insert woke language here. A conversation about this issue devolved into accusations of racism and a race-to-the-bottom (no pun intended) of who was more woke among students. This is a general theme at SR (and other schools, from what I read); almost everything is now being framed in CT / antiracist / intersectional language. It's become a fetish and almost pseudo-religious, which is ironic at a Catholic school. This is most definitely cancel culture, no matter what the rationalizers say.[/quote]

Your smugness in belittling the students' experience in dealing with this word and all it represents is reprehensible.[/quote]

None of those kids has had to deal with the word at all. They are coddled, gifted kids (even those on financial aid who don't live in Chevy Chase) who are being taught that one's entire identity is based on their layers of victimhood. And that is [i]precisely[/i] the reason why we read authors from other time periods who had first-hand experience with [i]actual[/i] racism. By removing "difficult" texts like TKAM from the curriculum, we are teaching our girls that, (1) only people with a certain amount of melanin in their skin can write or speak about people with that same amount of melanin; that (2) race is the defining characteristic of a person, not a common shared humanity; and that, (3) words are violence and ideas cause harm. This will result in a racially- and identity- obsessed society of psychological weaklings who are ill-equipped to deal with real adversity. The point of a liberal arts education--which Stone Ridge ostensibly offers--is to aggressively engage in difficult ideas, while forcing girls to engage with others who are superficially different, thus attaining some kind of objective truth. You know, the whole enlightenment thing. Sorry, that last sentence was actually smug.[/quote]

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