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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]English major here: I think this is a combination of phones and screens, which have killed reading for pleasure in many kids, and the fact that teaching of literature has become “politics by other means” and now almost entirely centers concern about inclusion and contemporary obsession with questions of identity at the expense of teaching challenging works. When you swap out The Scarlet Letter for some sort of Y.A.-level story about the challenges facing Identity Group X, it will have pedagogical impacts. [/quote] We homeschool, and sometimes I check the reading lists at ‘good’ schools around us to make sure that we’re not missing anything worthwhile and it’s true that the lists are full of identity politics. Many of those books are also filled with poor writing loaded with grammatical errors as they try to replicate “cultural” language. The classics (and good writing) seem basically nonexistent in schools nowadays.[/quote]
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