Think of the children. No seriously.
Sep. 13th, 2008 09:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ladymirthThey're teaching Twilight in the 8th Grade: Lesson plan.
Apparently it's true.
WTF?!
There is not enough Horror in the world. What kind of fucking retards do they have have running the school system?
Dear God. Those book may be good enough for grown women to laugh over, but I'd never let it get within 500 feet of a fourteen-year-old's impressionable grey matter. And now they're force-feeding this sexist tripe to the poor kidlets.
Here's a tip, idiots. What a thirteen-year-old (boy or girl) really needs is a foundation course on Women's Studies, which explains exactly what constitutes sexual assault and how to keep away from abusive relationships and how to lose a control-freak boyfriend who sabotages your car to try and stop you meeting your friends. After you've fed him his own sparkly peen.
U.S, you have now officially crossed over from batshit country and are now speedily approaching the horizon of FUBAR. (Seeing as I'm in SL, I'll probably be there to meet you when you get there.)
For the first time in the history of book publishing, you actually do need to think of the children and this is what happens.
Apparently it's true.
WTF?!
There is not enough Horror in the world. What kind of fucking retards do they have have running the school system?
Dear God. Those book may be good enough for grown women to laugh over, but I'd never let it get within 500 feet of a fourteen-year-old's impressionable grey matter. And now they're force-feeding this sexist tripe to the poor kidlets.
Here's a tip, idiots. What a thirteen-year-old (boy or girl) really needs is a foundation course on Women's Studies, which explains exactly what constitutes sexual assault and how to keep away from abusive relationships and how to lose a control-freak boyfriend who sabotages your car to try and stop you meeting your friends. After you've fed him his own sparkly peen.
U.S, you have now officially crossed over from batshit country and are now speedily approaching the horizon of FUBAR. (Seeing as I'm in SL, I'll probably be there to meet you when you get there.)
For the first time in the history of book publishing, you actually do need to think of the children and this is what happens.
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Date: 2008-09-13 06:55 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-09-15 05:38 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-09-13 08:59 pm (UTC)Speaking as one of the few sane, rational people in the U.S., I couldn't agree more with this statement. It seems that in that heated need to get students to read more, this school system's grasping at straws.
What made me O.o was this objective: Students will understand that novelists often provide insights about human experience through fictional means
Um, if you're looking for insight on the human experience, I can recommend several grade-level appropriate material. 14 year olds are exposed to way more than they should be, thanks to this "free for all" media of ours. Schools encouraging this kind of behavior is more troubling than I want to see.
Fortunately, I live in the South, and this crap would NEVER fly here...
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Date: 2008-09-15 05:37 am (UTC)Touchwood! Don't jinx yourself! =D
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Date: 2008-09-13 10:20 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-09-15 05:35 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-09-15 05:18 am (UTC)I was looking over the lesson plan, they have to make a journal, i can totally see it. The girls just going on and on about bfs and Edward but OMG poor boys. They are probably hating Edward, just like Robert Pattinson.
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Date: 2008-09-15 05:33 am (UTC)Also, some schools have put them on the reading list for Advanced Placement students. My brain died.
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Date: 2008-09-18 10:59 pm (UTC)It would have never made the IB reading list, its too PG 13 :P