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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm confused.  My kids went through 4 years each in MCPS and they never read Melville or Shakespeare.  Every English book they read was about the struggle of some disadvantaged group or person.  I guess the did read Animal Farm which is considered a classic but the main message there is that some people are more equal than others so it fits the narrative.[/quote]

My kids have read Shakespeare in their MCPS schools. Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream, IIRC. Don't remember any Melville specifically, but it's possible the older kid read Bartleby the Scrivener. No high school kid is reading Moby Dick in school; that's for college English majors only.[/quote]

Also, have they read the entire play, or just excerpts?

At our nonW MS, they just pick out excerpts to have the kids read.  Kids rarely read an entire book.  [/quote]

That’s pathetic.

Oh and to the PP who says no high schooler is reading Moby Dick: maybe in MCPS they’re not, but I definitely read Moby Dick in high school. I don’t think it was that unusual.

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I read Billy Budd in high school, which is much shorter. We did read some long novels though, like David Copperfield, Crime and Punishment, Ivanhoe. Yes, it was a lot of white male authors. I think the short stories we read were from a more diverse group.[/quote]

I’m not the PP, but we also read Billy Budd in high school.

As to the other PP, I can see why there is a benefit to reading excerpts, but I’m not sure that it is effective the way MCPS does it at our MS.

My kid is in high school now, but she read 3 books in MS.  
Red Scarf Girl - in HIGH, not even in English
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The Pact
Everything else was excerpts using the Study Sync curriculum, which was pretty crappy - even according to the English teachers, who really disliked it.

The low expectations in MS English are certainly not helping.  My kid is now at a private school and is actually reading novels.  I’m not White, but I’m more concerned with exposing my kid to good quality writing, regardless of the race of the author.  [/quote]

So you’re saying there was actually a difference between public and private school, in terms of quality of education? Take note, posters who claim private school is no better.[/quote]

It depends on where you go. My kids had a much worse educational experience in private. They are both in public now.[/quote]

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