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I teach Maus every year. Actually every book I teach is on the banned book list.
Thank you! I would absolutely want my children in your class. ❤️
This is a bad idea. Our students should not be denied any truth from certain books or history in our nation. They need to know the facts of all that has happened. Banning these important books is a cowardly way of hiding or trashing historical events that MUST be remembered by each and every generation.
It makes me feel worried because even the awful stories are still important stories for kids to hear and read about. I hope that we can continue to stand up to parents who want books like these removed. I feel like literature & English classes have always been a safe place for kids to be exposed to new ideas and information.
We had some issues in our district last school year that are still rippling through our community. Not from these books but from Gender Queer. Parents think that having a book in the library means that teachers are “teaching” the book. These must be parents who don’t want to talk to their kids about the world their kids live in but want to insulate them against any and all things they deem “scary”. Makes no sense. Mause and Anne Frank are ground breaking books. They make you feel uncomfortable and sad and they SHOULD! That’s how we reach the next generation so they can be better. I don’t get it. Discomfort is the only place growth happens. We need to look at history and feel uncomfortable, sad, disgusted, angry. That way we build empathy.
Well said and AMEN!
Every. Day.
They are amazing texts and need to be read. They cover an important yet horrible time in history. I use Night and Maus with my students.
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There's a certain segment of people in the country that are deeply uncomfortable with any sort of fiction that might cause people to empathize with minorities. I thought that group was much smaller than it really is, but it turns out they were just being silent. We'd generally agreed that that sort of bigotry wasn't acceptable, and they shut up about it until about 2015, when they felt encouraged to publicly own up to it and insist that bigotry should be accepted.
Yes, it's very disappointing.
I am using Fahrenheit 451 this year as well as Lord of the Flies. I’m all about some banned books!
Yes, I am actually teaching Fahrenheit 451 to my class this quarter. I am definitely going to point the student's attention to these changes.
I will say, reading thru this thread gives me some comfort. No matter what parents try to ban, for whatever stupid reason, we still manage to rebel and sneak in those books anyway.
Bradbury, Huxley, and Orwell all saw this coming. In my opinion, Huxley understood society best: why ban books when people would prefer to play games than read?
Those are two of my fav reads. Having 4 adult children, I have read them several times, then as an educator. I don't get that feeling. I actually think they both are great learning tools. My students loved the assignments and reading. It can be in how it is presented. You may be making more out of it. But, each one perceives differently.