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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ones we’ve heard of and read? Ones that are more than 10-20 years old?

I don’t think my all-honors senior has read more than a couple books I’ve heard of, and even those were ones she chose from a school list, not books assigned to the whole class.[/quote]

Barely ! It seems  that pretty much every book they read is about the story of a slave, the story of a boy during the civil rights movement, the story of a trans kid, the story of a gay kid, ...
Before everyone comes with guns blazing, I am a liberal, not MAGA, and encourage my kids to read such books but I ALSO want them to read the classics. Why can't we just have a happy medium?! Read some of these books in addition to Mark Twain, Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, ...  [/quote]

This!  All the book selections (and there are not many full books assigned period) are of the themes above. Add in something about recent immigrants/refugees and someone with mental illness [/quote]

+1 it infuriates me. [b]My kid can’t relate to refugees, mental illness, trans kids, or gay kids. [/b]I want good old fun classics. [/quote]

Of course they can. Or they should be able to. If not relate to, then at least try to understand or empathize with. That’s one of the beautiful things about literature. [/quote]

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