So funny you should ping me on this. My 14 year old has a summer reading list assigned by his tutor in composition (I was never much of a writer and felt like this was one subject I needed to "farm" out in order for him to have a good foundation.)
At any rate, his summer reading list consisted of:
Murder on the Orient Express
Screwtape Letters
The Old Man and the Sea
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Uncle Tom's Cabin
All Quiet on the Western Front.
When I went to pick these up from our local book store, the proprietor gave me a hard time about letting a 14 year old read Uncle Tom's Cabin. Told me that I needed to put it in context, how a child might misunderstand it, even told me to have him watch the King and I in order to get a better grasp of the issue. He was very condescending in his attitude toward me as a homeschooler, and in the fact that I was allowing my son to read a book that he felt should be "sanitized."
When I went to pick these up from our local book store, the proprietor gave me a hard time about letting a 14 year old read Uncle Tom's Cabin. Told me that I needed to put it in context, how a child might misunderstand it, even told me to have him watch the King and I in order to get a better grasp of the issue. He was very condescending in his attitude toward me as a homeschooler, and in the fact that I was allowing my son to read a book that he felt should be "sanitized."Yeah well see, this is where you tell him to get off, and tell him exactly where else you are going to take your business...
I can't stand self-righteousity and pompitude in any context.
Please! It is no longer "The Old Man and the Sea." It is now, according to the NY States Regents, "The Elderly Man and the Sea." I wish you would be more politically correct in the future!