A lot of Tx Ranchers are better read than Tx collage kids...
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“To be blunt: those who advocate “disrupting the teaching of Shakespeare” should be regarded with utter contempt, they are little better than right-wing hooligans breaking in and setting fires to books.”
That’s a new one on me - us right wingers want to burn books??
His heart seems to be in the right place (against burning books and censorship), but he’s totally out in left field (pun intended) when it comes to assigning blame.
Carrie begins by telling us about some important changes she made: “After teaching The Hate U Give for the last three years to freshmen alongside To Kill a Mockingbird, I decided this year Harper Lee and Big Willy were going to take a backseat to my students’ education in English 9. After reading The Hate U Give, and researching the names on page 443 for our research project to honor Black Lives Matter in schools week, we moved into a discussion of healthy relationships that Thomas provided readers in text.”
If not the instigators, these ‘#Disrupt Texts’ advocates are cohorts of the cancelling of Laura Ingalls Wilder as the name on the American Library Association (ALA) / Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) award for children’s literature or illustration. First warded in 1954 when the author was in her 80s, it honored her as establishing the genre with “Little House on the Prairie” and its sequels.
In 2018, the ALA/ALSC chose to remove her name from the award, renaming it “Children’s Literature Legacy Award”, because her books contained “anti-Native and anti-Black sentiments ...” The fact that her writing reflected the contemporary conflicts of the US West in the post Civil War era made no difference to these ‘librarians’. In the three years since, I frankly shudder and refuse to look at what gets the award now.
So, yes, they are coming for your children as well as Shakespeare, Kipling, Cooper and Twain/Clemens.