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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was a double STEM/English Lit major in college.  For my Lit major I read literature from the 1300s in Middle English (Piers Plowman) to books that were new at the time (Atonement and Never Let Me Go).

I also read plenty of books in college that had disturbing content, like The Collector and Regeneration.

Just reading the classics wouldn't give you a particularly well rounded education, you'd be missing out on a lot.[/quote]

In college.
In COLLEGE you read these books.
From someone who finds this book to be wildly inappropriate for my 14-year-old, I will agree with you that she *should* read aalllll the books in college! As an adult. Over 18.
Even the ones that make her “uncomfortable.”
Maybe even *especially* those.
But grooming younger teens IS a thing. And we need to be mindful, aware, discretionary, and vigilant about how and on what context sexually explicit material is introduced to our students BY ADULTS, and how and in what context they are encouraged to DISCUSS sexually explicit and even erotic passages with other minor peers with adults so that the blurring of adult/CHILD boundaries are not normalized in a way that is harmful to CHILDREN. 
We aren’t talking about a BAN.
We are taking about selecting books that contain many different sexually explicit passages that are not appropriate for 14-year-old CHILDREN.

Huge difference.[/quote]

Not really?  You expect your kid to bot read books that acknowledge the existence of sex at all (which they're going to know about from just basic life).  But sure, let's pretend you manage to keep your kid totally sheltered until they're 18 and then expect they're going to be suddenly prepared to read The Bluest Eye in college?  If you did manage that, you'd be sett8ng your child up for failure.

And the idea that reading books with any sexual content is "grooming" shows you have no idea what grooming is. [/quote]

Can English class focus on reading, writing, grammar, spelling please.
The sexual content can be covered by health class or FLE.[/quote]

Your kid isn't learning spelling in 9th grade...

Literature is about human experience.  It's going to cover a range of human experiences, which includes sexuality.  Excising anything with sexual themes cuts basically all Shakespeare, most classic literature (like, huh, why is Lydia's family so upset in Pride and Prejudice when she runs off), and so on.[/quote]

LOL, now you are using classic literature as your excuse. Don't be so hypocritical. 
DC was a 7th grader last year, there was only one classic literature  on his English class reading list. But the teacher didn't use it. Multiple progressive gender themed books were in the reading list and assigned to students. DC got one. It includes the depicts of sexual experience between two teen boys. I don't think the content is appropriate to a 12 yo boy. Don't try to use classic literature to cover up the real purpose of promoting some agenda. People are not stupid.  Parents can tell whether the content is appropriate to student. If some parents are OK with those contents, just let your students read the books. No need to feel annoyed by this email.s Some parents have different opinion and choose to OPT out. Then please respect those parents's opinion and legal right too. Schools/teachers should be inclusive and be respectful to different culture and religions. The email urge parents to be more involved in their children't school education and promote the collaboration between families and schools. It can also slightly offset the school local book review committee's lack of transparency.

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