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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem with the anti-intellectual mob that crows against dead white men authors is that often the proposed alternatives rarely even qualify as literature.

Case in point, my child’s assigned reading, Esperanza Rising, by some no name author, but checks a bunch of boxes for what counts as the correct ‘lived experiences’. I’m sorry, but what a complete waste of time! Simplistic plot line, poor character development, vocabulary and sentence structure at the comic book level. And that’s the only book they read so far this year!

To the question of what constitutes classics, how shallow and simplistic is to judge and reject literature by the genitals of the author? Classics are works that have an outsized influence on the culture, on later authors, and how society perceives the world. Why can’t they read Aesop’s fables instead? Yeah, I know, dead (certainly), white (possibly), male.[/quote]

My son has suffered through Esperanza Rising as well, and he said as much but in simpler terms. What a bunch of crock they have to read![/quote]

My kid read one complete book in their MCPS Middle School.  Everything else was excerpts from Study Sync.

That one book was The Pact.  My kid asked me to read it and it was simply terrible.  Poorly written, disjointed and not worthy of spending weeks on in a MS English class.  [/quote]

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