Had not seen this posted. From August.
I read stuff like that from the time I was 10 or 11 because it was in my house. In sixth grade I got a letter from my mother letting me take out anything I wanted from the library.
In hindsight, it wasn’t appropriate and I set stricter limits for my own children. However, the only reading that actually did me harm was the occult which was mild stuff in terms of sex and violence.
What I object to in the present school curriculum is not the individual book like The Bluest Eye. It’s the endless parade of death education starting in fourth or fifth grade, the holocaust, racism, mental illness, abuse, war, drug use, bullying, dystopianism, despair. Nothing good ever happens in the public school canon.
1) just because it was on oprah’s list doesn’t; make it a good book
2) there are plenty of books that are good for kids without all the perversions.
3) unless they’re trying to desensitize kids to perversion...
I don’t know much about Common Core yet, but if Jeb Bush and Huckaby are for it, I’m probably agin it.
The message has been sent: schools can NOT teach ‘positive’ ethical values as they might be seen as support religion...however, they clearly can and are teaching ethical trash.
Schools should not be doing things like that to kids
‘The Bluest Eye’?? Don’t tell me, let me guess.........the evilest person is a White guy??
I remember my son had to read “The Bridge to Terabitha” in middle school. I read it and I thought it was pretty grim with the the kid’s best ever day also being the day his only friend tries to cross the swollen river to their island, slipping her hands from the rope and drowning.
I still am sorry I didn’t tell his teacher what a crappy, depressing book that was.
I thought common core was a generic standard. Standards are not supposed to deal with specific instances. What part of “standard” don’t they get.
My daughter was required to read that, so I read it, as well. One of the more disturbing books she had to read that year. Yellow Raft on Blue Water wasn’t any better. Just different abuse of children in the two books.
It’s OK ‘cause toni Morrison is a black author-—totally oprah and obama approved. It would be torally racist if she wasn’t allowed into the slime named Common Core.
I'm sure the commies at the American Library Assoc include this title in it's “banned book week” list.
I just read the wiki article. Yeesh, it sounds like the exact opposite of the kind of thing I would have liked to read in high school or any time. Why would anyone voluntarily subject themselves to that kind of book is a mystery to me. Forcing someone to do so just seems cruel.
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I thought Jerzy Kosinsky’s books were dark. Sheesh.
