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[quote=Anonymous][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]

I've glanced at some of these books (as a gay parent) and while I want to be sympathetic, they are far more political than they need to be. They will not be classics, but faddish books forgotten in a decade. I find the whole "be kind to everyone" mantra overkill these days. Of course we want to be "kind" but I'm also aware that plenty of lasting unkind things are happening because we must be kind to everyone regardless of whatever their issues are and it's often perpetuating, not helping to fix, a problem. [/quote]

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