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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter read a book last year where the plot centered on a high schooler getting sexually assaulted. [/quote]

Ugh. Was it Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson?[/quote]
yes[/quote]

Can you share how your child handled that book? What are your thoughts as a parent?[/quote]
She liked it. I don’t really care about the content, but I wish they would read actual literature and classics. [/quote]

Yes same. [/quote]

Why? They're not English majors. The goal is to get them to read and to think critically. In 9th and 10th grade they're 14 and 15; a books that can get them interested and relate to them is a good choice.

The class is English, not the classics. There are a lot of ways to approach it.

-Literature Professor. .[/quote]

Yeah but they’re not really thinking cirtically about these modern, woke books, I’m sorry. The current curriculum is weak.[/quote]

Because they’ll be cancelled in no time if they don’t toe the party line [/quote]

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