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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]feeling like a naive parent today after another mentioned that most kids do not actually read the books in the summer. Do yours?[/quote]

We skipped it. I didn't like the list. Every book on it was some varation of "As a child, Ida Mae wanted to fly like her long-dead daddy. But as a black girl in 1940s Louisiana, she knew that was going to meet resistance." Or, "Larlo was like every other kid in the class, except he had autism."

Don't know why the reading list can't just include some good stories instead of hit kids over the head with a social justice message.[/quote]

Because it helps them learn empathy.  Something perhaps they are not learning at home.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/novel-finding-reading-literary-fiction-improves-empathy/[/quote]

Social justice and equity are the new buzz words of liberalism.
Just step away from the brainwashing.[/quote]

Heaven forbid your child learn empathy  :roll: [/quote]

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