[The Louiswu]

“ When I was in 10th grade we read “The Jungle”.

But where’s the balance?

Life isn’t just drunks getting eaten by rats, whores and drugs, life can be so much better but all I read is that teachers insist on only teaching the dark, harsh side of life, those “let’s get real things” what about something uplifting, morally positive and righteous to offer some perspective to those impressionable teens? If we don’t show our children how life can be, it’s easy to imagine that they won’t feel like they have a real choice in life.

[Poison Pill]

But where's the balance?

All the other books we read that year in English class. Plus the rest of the curricula in other classes; Art, science, history, etc.