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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one says you have to read or look at anything to opt your kid out of elements of the curriculum.  Just sign the paperwork and get them out of the room if that's what you want.  But then don't complain about whatever they get instead, because it's likely to be less developed than the curriculum that was actually deliberately chosen and planned.  Trade-off.[/quote]

100%. I don’t plan to put any time into creating alternative assignments. I’m sure AI can plan independent work to accompany some Kipling or Little House on the Prairie. I feel bad for the kids who are stuck with these parents, but I can only do so much.[/quote]

I will bet this will be litigated as well and then MCPS will create a standard that the lessons for the alternative need to be as robust as those for the opted-out title. That will require central office to create a plan for multiple books or to just get rid of the controversial books. [/quote]

The goal of the groups is for no one to read the controversial books.[/quote]

+1 Also, they are defining "controversial" in the Trumpian sense, meaning absolutely no discussion of slavery, inequality/privilege of any kind, gender, sexual orientation or gender identity, that otherwise paints US History as "racist, sexist, or otherwise discriminatory." All readings much be laudatory and "patriotic."

The problem is that no book is ever going to fit the bill. Grapes of Wrath involves systemic inequality (and has nudity and other verboten topics.). Catch-22 satirizes the US military. Huck Finn humanizes enslaved people and discusses systemic inequality.

The ultimate goal, I think, is not to read at all. 
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