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

I don’t get what you’re saying.   I hope you’re not saying because she doesn’t know anyone in these situations she can’t empathize with their issues.  Also if she can’t relate then maybe these books are more important for her to read than books about what was happening in England in 1861 with an orphan named Pip.

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