Well, in those situations, I've usually noticed if one parent gets up to be the public front for it, we find lots of parents nodding along but not saying anything and then supporting the vote to remove those authors because they're gay.
Since I come from a challenged book perspective, I know how much Just Not Quite Polite can become the avalanche against you if you're trying to preserve right to read in school and accurate representation of what the students are.
And I agree that students are being presented with Important Classical Authors at entirely the wrong time. I think it would be interesting (although the students would hate it) to have the same book be repeated across grades, but each grade gives them a different lens to look at it with. A sort of structured way to introduce to them that there are multiple ways to read books.
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Date: 2010-09-14 03:14 pm (UTC)Since I come from a challenged book perspective, I know how much Just Not Quite Polite can become the avalanche against you if you're trying to preserve right to read in school and accurate representation of what the students are.
And I agree that students are being presented with Important Classical Authors at entirely the wrong time. I think it would be interesting (although the students would hate it) to have the same book be repeated across grades, but each grade gives them a different lens to look at it with. A sort of structured way to introduce to them that there are multiple ways to read books.