[Corin Stormhands]

Okay, speaking of changing the subject...

2JM, my wife got an email this weekend from a mom concerned about the short story list for her 10th grade class. The mom doesn't want her daughter reading Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne because she gets nightmares.

My wife wrote her back and told her "you can't teach American lit without Poe and Hawthorne."

The woman didn't complain about Faulkner...

[RMDupree]

Oh please. If a sophomore in High School can't handle Edgar Allen Poe in this day and age, with movies like Scream and Hannibal that they all go to see with their friends anyway, there's obviously something wrong with the daughter of this woman.

More likely than not, the daughter doesn't want to strain her brain reading Poe or Hawthorne so she concocted her "nightmare story" so that mommy would save her from the evil Homework Boogy Man.

[HairOfTheDog]

I guess Steven King would be out of the question then....

[Sam Cree]

RMDupree has the right of it. The mother is asking your wife to believe that her daughter has been kept in a box or is mentally unstable.

Seems silly to redesign the curriculum around such a person.