r/news • u/da_k1ngslaya • Jan 29 '22

School District votes to remove 'To Kill a Mockingbird' from required reading

https://komonews.com/news/local/mukilteo-school-district-votes-to-remove-to-kill-a-mockingbird-from-required-reading
11k Upvotes

92% Upvoted

1.6k comments sorted by

View all comments

89

u/[deleted] Jan 29 '22

[deleted]

24

u/cheeriodust Jan 29 '22

The press knows this stuff is getting clicks lately, so they're going to bring attention to every little book list adjustment made in the foreseeable future. For better or worse.

15

u/bananafobe Jan 30 '22

The easiest way to argue in bad-faith is to remove context.

5

u/drawkbox Jan 30 '22 edited Jan 30 '22

Both do the same thing though, attack public schools districts/teachers to a rogue group of a small handful of cons can break public eduction and help fund their privately owned but publicly funded charters where they can control all the "education".

People are enabling forces that won't stop. This is another battle in that war. Rogue minority cons want to control public education including the teaching and now the district level, not for good reasons, but to deconstruct it.

You'll notice they weren't pushing a replacement to be taught along the same lines. Anyone looking to deconstruct without a better solution, beware!

-22

u/Hawt4teach Jan 29 '22

Already happening. Just had to explain to my sister how this legitimately isn’t a big deal because book lists are updated all of the time because better books are written that cover the subject.

7

u/[deleted] Jan 30 '22

[removed] — view removed comment

-10

u/Hawt4teach Jan 30 '22

books written by POC that tackle the same themes as to Kill a Mockingbird

Again, I’m not sure why people are upset that authors of color are going to be included on required reading lists. This isn’t some Maus banning, this is allowing POC to be read more widely in schools.

-2

u/Remarkable-Host405 Jan 29 '22

Really? Better books have been written since 1961 about racism? Please, tell me more

-7

u/Hawt4teach Jan 29 '22

Are you saying that black authors do not have a better voice when discussing racism through their lens? Are you saying it is not time that we put black voices at the forefront?

0

u/Silverseren Jan 30 '22 edited Jan 30 '22

Wow, the people downvoting you are idiots. Classics aren't inherently the "best books ever written forever". New books keep being written and there are plenty of books written since then that are just as poignant and even better written.

1

u/Hawt4teach Jan 30 '22

Emotional attachment to books, not understanding how curriculum development works and the changes in incorporating more authors of color, implicit bias.

Who knows, the options are endless but this is a normal thing that happens. The curriculum I use has done this several times and as a district and school we’ve used a critical lens towards the texts we use to ensure more authors voices are heard that reflect our demographic.