My child is going into 1st grade next year and has a reading list for the summer.
The school is private and conservative, so I was surprised that many of the books focused on social justice and brown people being oppressed: MLK, the 1st black ballerina, etc.
My position is that those topics are wholly inappropriate and irrelevant to preparing young people to life and reality. Not just 1st graders, but any age group. It’s divisive racial propaganda that ultimately demeans white people.
Then I saw that the list was taken from the surrounding PUBLIC school district.
Somebody got lazy. I don’t know if I want to raise a stink. I haven’t even met the teacher.
All I know is that I am obligated to protect my children from this repulsive cancer.
Good luck! We used to get a lot of Dickens, etc..