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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter read a book last year where the plot centered on a high schooler getting sexually assaulted. [/quote]

Ugh. Was it Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson?[/quote]
yes[/quote]

Can you share how your child handled that book? What are your thoughts as a parent?[/quote]
She liked it. I don’t really care about the content, but I wish they would read actual literature and classics. [/quote]

Yes same. [/quote]

Why? They're not English majors. The goal is to get them to read and to think critically. In 9th and 10th grade they're 14 and 15; a books that can get them interested and relate to them is a good choice.

The class is English, not the classics. There are a lot of ways to approach it.

-Literature Professor. .[/quote]

Yeah but they’re not really thinking cirtically about these modern, woke books, I’m sorry. The current curriculum is weak.[/quote]

If schools aren’t teaching kids to read critically, that’s a separate issue that needs to be fixed.  I can tell you as a former teacher who has taught Scarlett Letter, that plenty of people have studied classic literature in high school without being taught how to think about it.  The number of people who say they read the book in high school and it’s about how bad adultery is, is mind boggling.  [/quote]

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