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[quote=Anonymous][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]

That's ok. The public library has them, and they are also available to be bought by parents who wish to do so. Also I think that schools should be required to inform parents and let parents opt their children out of books with such questionable and inappropriate content (racism, imperialism, colonialism, religious bigotry, and political propaganda).

(I don't sincerely think that)[/quote]

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