Anonymous wrote:The idea that anything with sexual content is "pornography" shows a real lack of understanding of what pornography is.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Not even To Kill A Mockingbird or I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I might ask for an alternate book just to avoid reading a novel in verse, which my kid hates as much as I do.
I'm very left wing, but I'm actually a little disappointed that the schools are trending so hard away from reading the classics. I feel like kids will have lots of opportunities to read the controversial new lit-crit darling books. But when will they read The Grapes of Wrath, or The Crucible, Slaughterhouse Five, or Long Day's Journey Into Night, or anything by Hemingway or Wharton? (Seems like some of the classics, like Ray Bradbury, George Orwell and Toni Morrison continue to be popular among schools.) I subscribe to the "Make New Friends, But Keep the Old" theory of literature -- I feel like we are tossing out all the old friends. It would be easier to mix in the new ones if kids read 6 novels a year, but it seems like a lot of classes really only have 2-3, plus maybe some poems or short stories.
As a person of color, I get very little out of reading the "classics."
To kill a mockingbird is white savior complex and I think many would not consider why the caged bird sings a "classic," although it is a powerful book, but honestly not among my favorites. it does include sexual assault, by the by.
Anonymous wrote:Just laughing because I went to a private school that even had weekly chapel and we read The French Lieutenant's Woman, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, The Crucible, When Heaven and Earth Changed Places, and so on. Because our school was primarily concerned with prepping us for college. How do you expect your kid to pass classes in college if they've never encountered uncomfortable subject matter before?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo.
That’s a hard no.
The amount of awards this book won is staggering. People more knowledgeable than you think it's a yes.
I’m all about the awards for its literary style. Adults should read it and support this authors work.
She’s talented.
It’s just not a book for 9th graders.
You know not of what you speak. The awards are related to youth. Stop coddling your kids.
The Poet X was awarded The Printz Award, which "honors the best book written for teens this year."
The Poet X was also recently awarded the Pura Belpré Award, which is presented anually to a Latinx writer "whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth."
In November, The Poet X was the recipient of the 2018 National Book Award for Young People's Literature
This is exactly why it’s woke.
Wait, a Latin author writing about Latin culture is woke? Does that mean white people books about white culture are also woke?
Anonymous wrote:Not even To Kill A Mockingbird or I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I might ask for an alternate book just to avoid reading a novel in verse, which my kid hates as much as I do.
I'm very left wing, but I'm actually a little disappointed that the schools are trending so hard away from reading the classics. I feel like kids will have lots of opportunities to read the controversial new lit-crit darling books. But when will they read The Grapes of Wrath, or The Crucible, Slaughterhouse Five, or Long Day's Journey Into Night, or anything by Hemingway or Wharton? (Seems like some of the classics, like Ray Bradbury, George Orwell and Toni Morrison continue to be popular among schools.) I subscribe to the "Make New Friends, But Keep the Old" theory of literature -- I feel like we are tossing out all the old friends. It would be easier to mix in the new ones if kids read 6 novels a year, but it seems like a lot of classes really only have 2-3, plus maybe some poems or short stories.
As a person of color, I get very little out of reading the "classics."
Anonymous wrote:I was the pp who mentioned To Kill a Mockingbird, I never said it was explicit but if you read the stock language in the letter of the OP, it references basically any reference to sex.
Anonymous wrote:Yeah this is the equivalent of prop 65 warnings for hazardous substances that appear on everything in California. Thanks Youngkin!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo.
That’s a hard no.
The amount of awards this book won is staggering. People more knowledgeable than you think it's a yes.
I’m all about the awards for its literary style. Adults should read it and support this authors work.
She’s talented.
It’s just not a book for 9th graders.
You know not of what you speak. The awards are related to youth. Stop coddling your kids.
The Poet X was awarded The Printz Award, which "honors the best book written for teens this year."
The Poet X was also recently awarded the Pura Belpré Award, which is presented anually to a Latinx writer "whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth."
In November, The Poet X was the recipient of the 2018 National Book Award for Young People's Literature
This is exactly why it’s woke.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo.
That’s a hard no.
The amount of awards this book won is staggering. People more knowledgeable than you think it's a yes.
I’m all about the awards for its literary style. Adults should read it and support this authors work.
She’s talented.
It’s just not a book for 9th graders.
You know not of what you speak. The awards are related to youth. Stop coddling your kids.
The Poet X was awarded The Printz Award, which "honors the best book written for teens this year."
The Poet X was also recently awarded the Pura Belpré Award, which is presented anually to a Latinx writer "whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth."
In November, The Poet X was the recipient of the 2018 National Book Award for Young People's Literature
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately yes. Teachers are required to alert parents! However, parents can ask for specific titles, read them and opt their child out of any they feel are not appropriate. Teachers are required to provide an alternative assignment and to avoid any action or statement that would be critical of the child or parent.
But if my child is the only one doing the alternative assignment, they won’t be part of any class discussions. How would that work? Won’t it be harder?
It will make more work for the teacher, and your kid won't learn nearly enough, but you'll have saved your kid from the trauma of reading Romeo and Juliet. Plus, it's always fun to embarrass your kid!
It’s not a classic, unfortunately. I would totally be on board with a classic. It’s a woke novel with “masturbation, heavy naked petting,” etc.