I guess we’re about the same age. Wonder what kind of stuff they’re reading now.
I believe so. I can only guess at the public schools. Mine go to Catholic School thankfully. The neighbor kids all go to public and you can just see them slumped over walking to the bus stop like it is the end of the road for them.....daily no less. I tell you I actually feel sorry for kids today having to go through that.
I went to Catholic school in the 70s. My daughter is in public school and her reading lists are not so different that what mine were back then, including many on this list.
VERY thankfully, I imagine. DH went to Catholic school. Something about it must have taught him to really be a whiz at studying. It amazes me. I have to *work* at learning things. It’s like he just reads & it’s in there.
Public school must really vary a lot by school. He has been substitute teaching (& just passed his EC6 to teach/ also passed ESL- which you have to have to get a job on an alternative certificate)...anyway, he is in the district where he went to high school & I attended all 12 years. I’ve been impressed. So far, he hasn’t seen the usual indoctrination stuff & they do have a moment of silence & are required to stand up for it. Even the schools that pay more per hour (because of the make up of the students, I guess) have not been bad. Mho is that parenting plays a huge role in how kids do. He’s had 1 real problem child. It was a little second grade girl in an affluent school & she was White. Even the “alternative school” has impressed him.
(I’m in Texas, so no Common Core & depending on where they are, it’s still a pretty traditional place)
He would love to teach at his parish school. (I am Church of Christ, so that’s why I say “his”. I enjoy it, too, though)