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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Yes, I am saying that this country, with its foundations in the Enlightenment and the English language, will by necessity need to teach from that heritage if it expects people to value the things that made it successful.[/quote]

I would like my kids to learn about things that made this country successful, but also about areas where it wasn't so successful.[/quote]

The only people saying this needs to be an either/or decision are the people saying we should excise all white people from the curriculum. No one advocating that kids learn about Thomas Paine and John Locke are saying kids shouldn’t also learn about Frederick Douglass and Ralph Ellison.[/quote]

This was in reference to a PP's agreeing with "White authors should account for 88% of the MCPS curriculum."[/quote]

Wouldn't it be better if they focused less on an author's race and more on a book's content?[/quote]

The whole point is a curriculum that is 88% White in a country that is 60% non-Hispanic White and a school system that is 25% White has been selected, whether you realize it or not, because of racism. If you don't think racism should determine which books your child reads, then you should be in favor of a diverse curriculum, not one that upholds White supremacy by asserting that all the "good" books or the ones that make a person "educated" just HAPPEN to be written by White authors.[/quote]

It’s more complex than that and you know it.  Centuries of oppression mean that fewer would-be black authors have been able to get published.  Do you think Ezra Jack Keats would have been able to publish his books at that time if he had been black? That doesn’t mean our kids shouldn’t read his books.

But if you are looking for more diverse books to incorporate in your classroom, or your child’s classroom/library, check out suggestions from Here We Read and donate some books.[/quote]

Hello time traveler. It is now 2022, there are plenty of excellent picture books and other books written by Black writers. Also,I am not sure why you think I am somehow advocating for banning a Snowy Day in our schools. By all means, happy for kids to read it. But it may shock you to realize that there is no reason why curriculums need to be limited to early 20th century White literature.[/quote]

Of course there are- I’m sorry your school isn’t incorporating them.  Teachers at our school have an Amazon wishlist parents can purchase off of and my DD’s teacher last year had a lot of multicultural books on her list. I thought it was great. They’ve brought home all sorts of books from the media center too although I have not really been there myself.

I think I get a bit confused when folks talk about books and the “curriculum.”  My kids are only in ES but the actual curriculum seems to consist more of reading benchmark passages than actual literature.  So while the teachers all seem to have a collection of picture books in their rooms I don’t get the sense they all have the same ones- they seem to come from various sources.  So my at e this is more of a complaint about the books being assigned in MS/HS?  I would certainly be open to suggestions for what to supplement with at that age if they aren’t getting diverse voices in school. Do you have any recs?[/quote]

Hi there, just a refresher. I am a poster who responded to a person who is complaining about the number books written by writers of color in the MCPS curriculum, apparently because Black people only account for 12% of the country's population. So THEY think the curriculum should be based on imaginary population percentages that they made up. I am not concerned about my child's school not incorporating books by writers of color, and never said I was. As many people have said, there are many resources to respond to your last question - do you want me to send you a LMGTFY link?[/quote]

Here's an idea -  have kids read a mix of literature from dead to living people and of all races.  They can easily read a book every two weeks in middle and high school so they can fit in a huge variety.  It was a very different time and world but funny thing these same advocates are not advocating for those enslaved and treated horribly in other countries.  [b]Where is the outrage for what is going on in Ukraine[/b]?[/quote]

Um, what? Is this a parody post about whataboutism? You cannot seriously think you will convince anyone that nobody is outraged about Ukraine in MCPS. Lol.[/quote]

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