Students are given course descriptions at the start of the year. Ten bucks said that book was listed in it. Where was he at the beginning of the year?
This is a good point-- unless they have a setup way different from any English class I had in high school, we got a list of what books we'd be reading at the beginning of each semester or year. Mom and dad would look through the list, usually with my dad muttering, "Read that, read that . . . hey, why isn't ***** on the list?" :-)
Unfortunately (and I'm speaking solely from observations of some of my classmates), a lot of the problem doesn't seem to be 'school not informing parent' so much as 'parent not talking to kid'. I'm glad that wasn't a problem with my parents (and Debi, it sounds like that's not going to be a problem for your kids).
Once, when I was in second grade, I came home in tears because of a book the librarian had read to our class. It was a "kid-friendly" version of the Bonnie and Clyde story, with the reader's sympathy clearly supposed to go to them. So she got to the part where they got gunned down, and I got upset. Mom and dad went to her the next day, and had a long talk about, "With all the stuff in here you could be reading aloud to these kids, you pick that?" She apologized, and that one was off the reading list.
They were just one set of parents. So far as I know, none of the other parents had a problem with it (or maybe they didn't know). But do I think mom and dad alone telling her not to read that aloud anymore was wrong? No. They kept up with what I was being taught/exposed to, and complained when necessary. If they'd tried to get the book banned from the library or something, then I'd have had a problem with it. *s*
Then maybe you shouldn't reply.
Here, I'm going to have to go with, not a good point. I'm not going to screen or delete anyone's comments, or discourage anyone from replying. I bring a subject up, that means it's open to debate, and anyone who wants to debate can. So long as there's no death threats, we're good. ;-)
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This is a good point-- unless they have a setup way different from any English class I had in high school, we got a list of what books we'd be reading at the beginning of each semester or year. Mom and dad would look through the list, usually with my dad muttering, "Read that, read that . . . hey, why isn't ***** on the list?" :-)
Unfortunately (and I'm speaking solely from observations of some of my classmates), a lot of the problem doesn't seem to be 'school not informing parent' so much as 'parent not talking to kid'. I'm glad that wasn't a problem with my parents (and Debi, it sounds like that's not going to be a problem for your kids).
Once, when I was in second grade, I came home in tears because of a book the librarian had read to our class. It was a "kid-friendly" version of the Bonnie and Clyde story, with the reader's sympathy clearly supposed to go to them. So she got to the part where they got gunned down, and I got upset. Mom and dad went to her the next day, and had a long talk about, "With all the stuff in here you could be reading aloud to these kids, you pick that?" She apologized, and that one was off the reading list.
They were just one set of parents. So far as I know, none of the other parents had a problem with it (or maybe they didn't know). But do I think mom and dad alone telling her not to read that aloud anymore was wrong? No. They kept up with what I was being taught/exposed to, and complained when necessary. If they'd tried to get the book banned from the library or something, then I'd have had a problem with it. *s*
Then maybe you shouldn't reply.
Here, I'm going to have to go with, not a good point. I'm not going to screen or delete anyone's comments, or discourage anyone from replying. I bring a subject up, that means it's open to debate, and anyone who wants to debate can. So long as there's no death threats, we're good. ;-)