But when I was in school, this kind of thing was virtually nonexistent in any school.
I'm dying to know which book you're talking about.
Way back when, forty plus years ago, "THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN" was the vanguard book, that somehow got called a HOMOSEXUAL book. That's ridiculous and we all howled with laughter over that, but for some strange reason, parents have stopped going to schools and protesting the stupidity of such things.
I get the grade inflation thing because over the years, we’ve lowered the bar on academic excellence. I just never heard of students storming into college prof offices demanding a grade change. Back when I attended Penn State, any of my profs would have laughed me out of their office. And I spent much time in certain prof offices since I was a “borderline” student in their class and wanted the A or B(grade borderline and wanted to get a few extra points for “caring” about my grade - a few extra participation points).
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. LOL! That was the book. She had to argue and support the homosexual angle in her paper and oral report. The teacher believed that Mark Twain was “afraid” to come out and say Huck and Jim had a homosexual relationship but made references in the book. I read the book twice, once in high school and again a month or so ago. I just don’t see it. Her paper had to argue the homosexual agenda, imo, so she argued it without believing it. She had to support that Huck and Jim had a sexual relationship as inferenced by Mark Twain but because of the times, he couldn’t come out and say it. And surprisingly, or maybe not so, she received a perfect score, her first in this class. We argued for days about this assignment. I finally convinced her to write what the teacher wanted to read.
As for parents not protesting stuff like this, I pick and choose my battles with the schools, my kids, etc. I think her English teacher this year is a nut but he’s a nut that can affect her grade (not tests, since most answers are factual, but essays and subjective assessments). English class isn’t math or science class where there’s an exact answer and the facts can’t be too twisted. My two teens are honor students, all of their academic classes are honors classes. And it’s really funny in a sick way, but one of the comments on one report card was “student doesn’t ask teacher for help” - well, she went from an A to a B so please tell me what “help” she needs? was my attitude. Why should she ask for help when she went from an A to a B grade?
But again, I pick and choose what I protest or call the school about. I’m not going to protest or call the teacher or school over a book or over my kid having to support the homosexual inferences she doesn’t think exist. Or over a comment like the one made on the other kid’s report card. Fortunately, they haven’t needed me to intervene yet at the high school level so when I do, if I ever have to, it might actually mean something. I’ve been a vocal advocate at the grade school level more than I want to admit. I have two at the grade school level and it’s worse there in some ways. They’re still little kids that need mommy to help out or fix it but I hope the high school kids can do it on their own.
On another note, a friend’s kid, in the same grade and school as my eldest, was suspended for 3 days for fighting - she was hit and hit back during a girl fight, a fight she wasn’t directly involved with but intervened to break it up. I read something on here earlier about how one can’t even defend oneself without getting the same punishment as the instigator. I wouldn’t have believed it could happen at this school but it did. I’ve known this kid her entire life and the fact she tried to break it up is wonderful but it sucks she was suspended for that. We had a long talk in our house about this incident and my teens aren’t “figthers” but they’d have our support for defending themselves or for trying to break up a physical fight. It disgusts me that all involved were suspended when a couple were only trying to break it up, got hit, and hit back. When I was in high school, we were allowed to defend ourselves.