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"I don't understand. But I don't care, so it works out."
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Originally Posted by FordBronco1967
What is wrong with ‘Night’? I don’t remember anything wrong with it, when I had to read it in my Soohmore year of High School.
I personally don't think Night should be read by anyone younger than upper high school kids.
Here, it's taught in 8th grade.
It's too much. The truth is important, but this truth is too much.
The fact that Weisel's own father was tortured to death by his own bunk mates, while the boy was sneaking into the men's dorm daily to offer him his own food because his father was too ill to get up, is something an 8th grader isn't prepared to digest.
It's a truth, but it's a nuance that kids shouldn't have to fathom.
I personally don't think Night should be read by anyone younger than upper high school kids.
Here, it's taught in 8th grade.
It's too much. The truth is important, but this truth is too much.
The fact that Weisel's own father was tortured to death by his own bunk mates, while the boy was sneaking into the men's dorm daily to offer him his own food because his father was too ill to get up, is something an 8th grader isn't prepared to digest.
It's a truth, but it's a nuance that kids shouldn't have to fathom.
So by the same token, we shouldn't allow 'The Bluest Eye', right?
This quote from the article says a lot.
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“It shows people hanging, it shows them killing kids, why does the educational system promote this kind of stuff, it is not wise or healthy,” Allman said, according to the minutes.
Julie Goodin, an assistant principal, replied to Allman, saying, “I can talk of the history, I was a history teacher and there is nothing pretty about the Holocaust and for me this was a great way to depict a horrific time in history.”
The best way to teach about an atrocity is to show that it was an atrocity, not "soften" it. It should horrify.
I read Night and Maus in the 4th or 5th grade, and then Night in school in 7th grade. Honestly, 7th grade felt late. If kids can bully Jewish kids with threats of a gas chamber before 7th grade, they can develop some empathy being horrified by reading about the Holocaust and other genocides that have happened since, including right this second.
If parents are uncomfortable with teaching this kind of content, they are welcome to homeschool.
is it a matter of one book being selected over another or has "maus" ( I & II ) been banned? i've also read both books and have recommended to my daughter.
A Tennessee school district has voted to ban a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust due to “inappropriate language" and an illustration of a nude woman, according to minutes from a board meeting.
Seems like stupid rationale to me, it's dark content where millions get killed...a little nudity or bad words gets it banned?
However, it's ONE school district in Tennessee and if you google it the ENTIRE COUNTY has 53,000 people LMAO.
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So by the same token, we shouldn't allow 'The Bluest Eye', right?
Is that required reading in 8th grade?
That's the bar I'm talking about. I don't think Night should be required reading in 8th grade.
Looking at the themes in this book (which I have never read, so there's that up front) that include incest, I would not recommend it be required for 8th graders.
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