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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unfortunately yes. Teachers are required to alert parents! However, parents can ask for specific titles, read them and opt their child out of any they feel are not appropriate. Teachers are required to provide an alternative assignment and to avoid any action or statement that would be critical of the child or parent. [/quote]

But if my child is the only one doing the alternative assignment, they won’t be part of any class discussions. How would that work? Won’t it be harder?[/quote]

It will make more work for the teacher, and your kid won't learn nearly enough, but you'll have saved your kid from the trauma of reading Romeo and Juliet.  Plus, it's always fun to embarrass your kid![/quote]

It’s not a classic, unfortunately. I would totally be on board with a classic. It’s a woke novel with “masturbation, heavy naked petting,” etc.[/quote]

+1
It’s odd that just the mere fact that they need to send out this letter is not the deterrent needed for the decision-makers to pause and ask “is this necessary reading for 14/15-year olds? Or is there maybe a book that can be used to teach the same literary concepts that isn’t sexually explicit?

At first we ordered a copy for our DD to have and fully intending for her to participate in reading it. (I naively thought that this letter must be the result of some ultra right wing conservative book-bit ing alarmist moms and surely it can’t really be that explicit or graphic…..but no. It turned out I was wrong.)

It’s very graphic, and as explicit as reading soft core pornography.
This is no “Judy Blume” moment. It’s extremely graphic description of erections, masturbation, and weird discussions of the characters mom talking about her conflation of tampon use and sexual promiscuity. Exceedingly strange topics for an English class discussion on mixed company.

But I guess that’s where we are now.[/quote]

We had similar issues with an APS English / Literary HS teacher, where every book or article was a BLM or woke type book.  The books and articles were used to express English class concepts, but they were just over the top and definitely not any traditional classics - and the discussions focused on the politics, and not the literary concept being taught.  Teacher was not a very good teacher, and we realized that DC English skills had suffered when they took the PSAT.  We had to get a tutor to catch our DC up to where they should be with English skills.  Best of luck.[/quote]

DC’s 9th grade teacher is pushing the same woke stuff. The problem is that he is very expressive and funny and kids think he is the best thing ever. 
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