“””We get this curriculum wherein we are instructed... ORDERED... to have the kids read Maya Angelou, bell hooks, Gary Soto, Amy Tan... contemporary writers from a politically correct roster who tend to write fairly simply, in short sentences...
Then the kids get the state tests with excerpts from Call of the Wild and Anne of Green Gables. You can just imagine these kids’ reactions. They have no idea what the heck they are looking at.””
Your complaint is with the teacher’s union who is deciding to teach the kids some politcal correct garbage without taking into account they will be tested on classical literature.
So if the kids fail, then the voters need to remove the teachers and the administration from the school.
I think it is great the kids are being tested on classical literature.
Failure to teach classical literature is reason to remove those in power from their positions.
For myself, I stuff as much as I can in and around the blocks of the curriculum: Hemingway, Jane Austen, Francis Hodgson Burnett... some of those books I had to buy with my own money because the schools don't buy that sort of thing. I just wish more Freepers really understood what a teacher is up against.