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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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Who insisted upon that?!
No one, that’s who.[/quote]

The first PP that said “The books they read at Deal are not particularly advanced. And for some reason all the books are about racism or minority groups being oppressed. Like every single book”.

I’m sure they think Malcom X and Raisin in the Sun falls into the not advanced category.[/quote]

[b]I think the point is that these books don’t foster critical thinking. There is nothing to debate.  There’s only one correct viewpoint[/b].  When the kids finish the book about segregated schools, they start a book about the Japanese internment camps.  And when they finish that, they read about about the trail of tears. And then they learn about Jackie Robinson for the seventh consecutive year.  [/quote]

Nothing to debate??
Have you read any of these books? Maybe it's you that lacks critical thinking skills.[/quote]

It would take a very brave 8th grader to publicly express any view that wasn’t 100% woke approved in a DCPS building.   Very brave.  [/quote]

this. What does PP think there is to debate in any of those books; can they come up with a single topic that the whole class won't either agree on or know they have to agree on? [/quote]

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