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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid just started at a Big3 for 9th  and the summer reading was the Autobiography of Malcolm X.[/quote]

A classic.[/quote]

Exactly. But PPs insist that only white authors can write classics.

Currently at Deal, 
6th graders are reading Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
7th graders are reading Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman
8th graders are reading Raisin in the Sun
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They're not reading entire books, just excerpts.[/quote]

Correct.  My current 9th grader was assigned about 1/3 of Raisin in the Sun last year.  Her team never finished the book.  
She has read more in a week of private high school than in 3 years total at Deal.  This is not an exaggeration. [/quote]

Honest question, why don't you just ask your kids to read the whole books?[/quote]

I did when I realized it was never assigned.  I had him pick it back up and finish it.  [/quote]

Glad you did that.  It sucks to have to always have to be pushing back against low expectations.  It kind of seeps in no matter what you do.  That is one thing that private and magnet schools get you, is that the school/peers/etc provide a certain base level of expected quality.  Tough to do it as a parent without that support.[/quote]

I know last year they cut back reading the full book in distance learning (we also made our kid finish) but are excerpts or full text being taught now that in person? I thought that was just a last year issue given time constraints, virtual structure - although I never really got why reading full books wasn’t an asynchronous expectation [/quote]

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