So glad my district & most of California are good with books.
The Outsiders is a common read for 7th grade in my district.
I've switched to Hunger Games w/ our new curriculum.
But my middle classroom library has books that have been challenged or banned for tweens/YA in places. They're good books
I will keep blocking every maga troll trying to attack me for defending teachers, and access to books that promote critical thinking about how we make decisions about exercising power. Violate TOS, will report.
Amen. I'm actually surprised there's even a bookshelf in the class. I never buy books for class for this exact reason. We as a nation don't appreciate teachers, who work 53 hours a week on average. To them, we're just childcare.
Honestly, many books are on a ban list because they subvert capitalism, colonization and patriarchal values which have permeated the cogs of Americas/western nations toxic inner workings from the beginning. Teaching them enables critical thinking of one’s own disfunctional world.
I completely agree, but occasionally feel that the simplicity of a singular concept pointing towards those concepts is more effective communication than explaining each one in clarifying detail. It’s having knowledge of your anticipated reader.
My 8th grade English teacher introduced me to Of Mice and Men, Lord of the Flies, Bless the Beasts and the Children and Uncle Tom's Cabin ( which I still can't finish). I'm forever grateful bc it opened a world I enter daily. Great teachers live on.
Haha perfect. This year we got an email (I’m a high school teacher in Florida) that said pull these 380 books from your shelves until further “review.” I brought in a pop up table and moved them to the table at the front of the room.
Putting stops on what people can think about will be something they’re always going to think about.
But we’ll have to think about how to keep that from happening.
Sigh. Scandinavia is on my list of potential escape locations if stuff goes south here. It would be nice to sit outside and read a book and not have people ask me Why do I read?
I really hope everything turns out well! It's a bit puzzling to hear phrases like "land of the free" while also seeing discussions about censorship of the written word.
Sigh. Sounds wonderful.
Also on disability, no budget for traveling. And getting closer to that “elderly” designation, but they won’t accept me because I am a potty mouth.
There are definitely massive challenges. But I have a new hobby to keep my spirits up! It was tell and find dad jokes. But now I'm writing them! Watch for me now on youtube or soon at your local er "Just for Laughs"?? oh yeah they went broke. I'll try the Comedy Factory. I can travel there.
My High School English teacher literally did this and it was great. We had a lesson where she handed out this double-column list organised by genre, and got us to highlight which ones on there we'd already read, and tasked us unofficially with reading at least 2 more by end of the year.
It’s satire about rebelling against book bans. It doesn’t imply these are the only books to read. It is suggesting that a segment of us want to limit access to certain ideas, as another agent of control. And it celebrates the teachers who will find a way to teach critical thinking anyway.
The thing about all this talk of banning books is that it only makes them more desirable to read said books. It basically promotes them by causing a scarcity mindset and fostering curiosity 😆👏
This started as defending access to books about ideas in libraries. Especially ones promoting critical thinking about the purpose and practice of different forms of governance. It wasn’t allowing all kids access to all things, it’s just how maga spun it to block it. And I respect you for that.
Right wingers have a corner on the data these manufacturers tried to hide for 75 years! After suing for the 1000s of documents to be public, some of them 1000s of pages long, where are the Left leaning and independent non partisan writers on this?!?!
Can't just be Naomi's team!?
If I was an English teacher I would seriously make a whole semester on government censorship and book-banning where we would read books wanting to be banned and about how we are repeating history.
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The Outsiders is a common read for 7th grade in my district.
I've switched to Hunger Games w/ our new curriculum.
But my middle classroom library has books that have been challenged or banned for tweens/YA in places. They're good books
Starve Trolls, Feed Your Friends
Mein Kampf
Atlas Shrugged
But we’ll have to think about how to keep that from happening.
Also on disability, no budget for traveling. And getting closer to that “elderly” designation, but they won’t accept me because I am a potty mouth.
Which is kind of the point. "Dad! You are so NOT cool!"
https://www.heritage.org/education/commentary/parents-objecting-pornographic-material-school-libraries-arent-book-banners
Can't just be Naomi's team!?