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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid just started at a Big3 for 9th  and the summer reading was the Autobiography of Malcolm X.[/quote]

A classic.[/quote]

Exactly. But PPs insist that only white authors can write classics.

Currently at Deal, 
6th graders are reading Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
7th graders are reading Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman
8th graders are reading Raisin in the Sun
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And the 6th graders are redesigning the old Mississippi flag -- in ELA -- to replace the battle flag of northern VA with social justice imagery.[/quote]

So what? It’s an old flag. I hope they are also discussing why cultures have symbols and how the rhetoric surrounding symbols changes over time. The Confederate symbols are symbols of hatred and white supremacy but white supremacy now tries to pass it off as “state’s rights” or “southern pride.”[/quote]

None of which has a thing to do with ELA...[/quote]

It sounds like that would be covered in one lecture and one homework assignment -- though I'll bet they spent a lot more time on it than it needed.[/quote]

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