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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is what I did when they threw out the canon the year my son started high school. Instead of “Catcher in the Rye”, they substituted “Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe,” a queer, coming-of-age novel set in El Paso. [b]They threw out Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Hawthorne[/b] and other authors. Then they had trigger warnings in the syllabus. So I ended up hiring a female, Black PhD Literature candidate to tutor my son. [b]She was able to give him the perspective he needed to get good grades on his papers.[/b] Best thing I ever did.[/quote]

Outrageous.  Maybe we can all hire our own personal DEI coaches just to be able to function in this postmodern hellscape.[/quote]
I felt I was beating them at their own game.[/quote]

Simpler explanation, she knew how to read and write, and actually taught your DC something, but good for him.[/quote]

Who would you have hired to give him the correct perspective to write well about rich, morally corrupt people from the jazz age; poor Southerners and intellectually disabled people; Puritans and adulterers? (ie., the characters in Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and Hawthorne works). I mean, it seems every bit of lit from the anon asks your child to relate to a group of people far removed from his experience, but you only have issues with queer folks from texas?[/quote] I had read all the traditional texts in the canon as an English major, so could help my DC.[b] But the English teachers at my DC’s high school were very quick to deduct points for DC not being aware of norms/issues related to minority culture. They were chomping at the bit to mark DC down.[/b][/quote]

Again, glad your DS learned something you were incapable of teaching, because [i]I grok Holden Caufield[/i], is more loan gunman than literate.[/quote]

Sure sure sure that happened. Also, it's CHAMPING at the bit. Also, you have a major chip on your shoulder and seemed peeve your child had to learn something you couldn't teach him; empathy and expanding your worldview.[/quote]

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