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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As long as my kids read, I’m fine with their reading just about anything.  And 6th graders already know about condoms, drugs and drinks. They have access to TV, the internet and they talk.[/quote]

Well, yes, but this is a pretty lazy goal for the education of your children.  Literature is meant to inspire, expose people to beautiful words and new ideas, etc.  Schools of education now think that kids need to "relate" to everything.  No, kids have been imagining themselves in other worlds and times for several centuries through literature.  [b]Why not choose books that elevate rather than degrade.[/b]  And "just reading anything" is a pretty low standard.  [/quote]

Funny you should say that. A PP mentioned A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. There's a part where Francie writes stories based on her own life (which involves poverty, starvation, and drunkenness), and the teacher gives her Cs and says, ""But poverty, starvation and drunkenness are ugly subjects to choose. We all admit these things exist. But one doesn't write about them...One delves into the imagination and finds beauty there. The writer, like the artist, must strive for beauty always." and it goes downhill from there. That's you.[/quote]

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