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> depicts nudity (that is, illustrated animal nudity). I'm pretty sure they're referring to the depiction of the author's mother's nude corpse in a bathtub ful
by aahortwwy 5y ago
> depicts nudity (that is, illustrated animal nudity).
I'm pretty sure they're referring to the depiction of the author's mother's nude corpse in a bathtub full of bloody water.
- HarryHirsch 5y agoDied in Auschwitz 20 years later. That happened. And since there's no way to sugarcoat that fact they ban the book instead.
- finite_jest 5y agoWe don't have a moral duty to make eighth-graders see depictions of everything that is heinous and ugly about the world.
- errcorrectcode 5y agoLet's just pretend the Holocaust didn't happen. Moonbeams, rainbows, and sunshine all the time. Oh and definitely don't teach the Armenian Genocide, WW1, WW2, The Trail of Tears, or slavery because that would hurt someones feewlings. Get real or be ignorant.
- otterley 5y agoHow do you recommend we teach the Holocaust and the history of other evils to children instead, in a way that is equally or more effective?
- legerdemain 5y agoWhy "teach" the Holocaust? Why make young children carry the burden of a monstrous time in history? How does it make them better at English?
- aahortwwy 5y agoCan't reply to your deeper comments on this thread, but in the meeting minutes they decide they'll replace Maus with a different text about the Holocaust. So it's not really a debate about whether 8th graders should be taught the Holocaust in ELA, but how they should be taught.
- otterley 5y agoI can’t help but wonder if they are really going to replace Maus with something “better” (and if so, how they would make that judgment). I wouldn’t be surprised if they keep kicking that can down the road until the school board is replaced.
- otterley 5y agoAre you suggesting that teaching children history is a bad idea? If so, why? (Also, what does English have to do with anything? We can teach both English and history to children in the same day. I and my peers were taught both when I was in school. Oh, and math and science, too.)
- legerdemain 5y agoThis book was removed from the English Language Arts curriculum. ELA is the common American name for English class in the lower grades.
- otterley 5y agoThat seems like an implementation detail that's not worth getting wrapped around the axle over.
- legerdemain 5y agoWe are talking about this particular event being reported in Mother Jones, not some other, hypothetical, counterfactual event that you're trying to redirect the topic to.