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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I might ask for an alternate book just to avoid reading a novel in verse, which my kid hates as much as I do.

I'm very left wing, but I'm actually a little disappointed that the schools are trending so hard away from reading the classics.  I feel like kids will have lots of opportunities to read the controversial new lit-crit darling books.  But when will they read The Grapes of Wrath, or The Crucible, Slaughterhouse Five, or Long Day's Journey Into Night, or anything by Hemingway or Wharton?  (Seems like some of the classics, like Ray Bradbury, George Orwell and Toni Morrison continue to be popular among schools.)  I subscribe to the "Make New Friends, But Keep the Old" theory of literature -- I feel like we are tossing out all the old friends.  It would be easier to mix in the new ones if kids read 6 novels a year, but it seems like a lot of classes really only have 2-3, plus maybe some poems or short stories.
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Exactly this.
I understand the point is to teach them to write and analyze the text but why not do it using tried and true classics.
Besides I don’t see a single thing my “not Hispanic or Latino” make child can relate to in this book. Yes they already learned about consent in Health. The rest like fighting isn’t relatable luckily. [/quote]

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Wtf? So it's OK for non-WASP kids to have to read 1950s all white middle class classics, but not OK for your kid to read something from a different view point?[/quote]

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