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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Esperanza Rising’s intended age group is 9-12. What do you expect? They should substitute Faulkner instead?[/quote]

You would be amazed at what kids can learn when challenged. Perhaps not Faulkner at that age, but maybe Dickens?[/quote]

I like Dickens - or rather, there are many Dickens novels that I like a lot. Why should 9-12-year-olds in Montgomery County in 2023 read Bleak House instead of Esperanza Rising?

https://www.ala.org/awardsgrants/content/esperanza-rising-0[/quote]

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