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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did anyone here want to read "the classics" when they were in school? [b]Curriculum and media center development has moved light years beyond[/b] when we were in school. Were the classics even ever relevant???[/quote]

What does this mean?  Captain Underpants?

Yes, I wanted to read [i]A Little Princess[/i], [i]Heidi[/i], [i]Little House on the Prairie[/i], etc.

Tell us what you mean about curriculum moving light years beyond...[/quote]

Those books are still available! It's not like "the classics" have been purged from MCPS media centers. More books have been added. That's good! I want kids with two dads to feel just as represented in literature as kids who live on the side of a mountain in Switzerland with their grumpy grandfather. [/quote]

You aren't responding to the same thing that I was responding to.  But, so we can discuss... there were 114,000 same sex couples raising kids in the U.S. in 2016 (latest I saw in my quick look-up) out of 34.2 million families with children in that year.  So, "just as represented" should be... not much.  Equals 0.00351851851

https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2017/employment-in-families-with-children-in-2016.htm
https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/same-sex-parents-us/

(And, I really doubt that very many MCPS classrooms have the books cited above.) [/quote]

So, as a US-born, non-Christian, Gen X child of immigrants, I read A Little Princess, Heidi (abridged), Little House on the Prairie, and anything in the "etc." category you can name. I even read Little Lord Fauntleroy. I think there's space on the library bookshelves for books that were published within the last 80 years and have main characters who aren't white and Christian. I even think this would be good for children who are white and Christian.[/quote]

Yes, you are Get X and haven't seen the shelves of an elementary school in a long time.  The books cited above - not wanted now.[/quote]

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