Meantime in Canada, my 14-year-old niece reports the following:
The kid is a passionate reader but the school is doing everything to nip that in the bud. It’s also doing everything to make kids detest the gay, the trans, and the indigenous.
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It just amazes me how easily adult minds can be misled and corrupted. Why would an adult think these topics are good for children?
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And there’s not even an attempt to introduce the timeless works of literature our civilization has created. There’s no Jules Verne, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, Daniel Defoe, Jane Austen – any of the authors that even in the USSR all kids from educated families knew and read way before the age of 14. Where’s real aesthetics? Where’s art? Where’s actual literature?
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“Those are too hard. Nobody will like them.”
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I looked at a couple of these woke books that are assigned in public schools, and they are unreadable. I’m not even talking about the content. The grammar is poor. The vocabulary is off. The way characters speak is clumsy and weird. Bad, bad writing. I couldn’t make myself go past page 3 on any of them.
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Yes. But it’s just another example of the logic of the left. They don’t have reasoning, they just have ex-post-facto rationalizations they think you might buy.
Replace “too hard, they won’t read it” lit. with unreadable trash. Claim it’s “more relevant”. None of that is true. They just want more propaganda saturation, and less literacy. They’re winning that one, too.
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As a substitute teacher who’s worked in a lot of middle and high school English classes, I can vouch that a lot of schools have this horrible, woke “literature”. There’s so many books about transgender other LGBT teens, books about minority students with evil white kids and loads of books about the Civil Rights movement and hagiographic biographies of Obama that it really becomes propaganda. Of course prejudice is bad but this whole thing about saintly minorities and and Obama is tedious, many posters depicting US presidents don’t even mention Trump was president and end right after Obama
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It’s not just the schools! The public libraries are doing it too– my kids are moving into the tween lit stuff, and I look it over before checking it out. If you go for the books put out on display (i.e. stuff the librarians are promoting) it is nearly impossible to find one that *isn’t* some gross propaganda effort on behalf of normalizing degeneracy and social dysfunction. I prefer to do all my lookups from home, make a list, and go to the library alone– avoids the grossness as well as the hobos.
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It’s been a long while since I’ve been to the young adult section of a public library, but I can believe it. At the library I tend to stay in the adult section and read sociology and history books, my personal library at home is enormous. It’s better if you have young people at home to create your own personal library of pre-vetted books, most of my collection is used stuff from EBay and garage sales
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We have an extensive home library, due to homeschooling. It is never enough to keep the kids in reading material. We also use ereaders and Project Gutenberg extensively! I don’t believe in banning silly low-quality literature, as long as it’s not actively sabotaging my parenting efforts… so they’ve read a lot of Tom Swift and Wizard of Oz. Contemporary books though… that’s a minefield.
On the plus side, my eldest can now recognize, and compose in that venerable literary form, the Tom Swiftie!
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“I’ll go look in the attic”, Tom said loftily.
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““I’ll go look in the attic”, Tom said loftily.”
“Or better yet, I’ll try the ground floor”, he said in a down to earth manner.
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“I’ll go look in the attic”, Tom said loftily.
“Or better yet, I’ll try the ground floor,” he added in a down to earth manner.
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“And then double-check the basement,” he remarked lowly.
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I buy all my right-wing books on paper because one doesn’t know how long they’ll be available and also to build a collection. Bought the Jeremy Carl book today, for example.
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I do this with reference books, for the same reason. Botany, history, nursing, car repair, carpentry, field guides… so much useful information has already become hard to find on the internet. I figure it’s only a matter of time before somebody decides we shouldn’t know how to use power tools or replace brake pads either.
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So what kind of books does your niece enjoy reading? Any titles the passionate reader would recommend to you or other kids?
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She really likes books about the history of the Holocaust. Anne Frank’s diaries, etc. We baptized her in the Orthodox faith but everything points to the future of embracing her Jewish heritage and converting to Judaism. I’ll be shocked if she’s not a practicing Jew in 15 years.
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FWIW, she doesn’t need to convert to Judaism in order to immigrate to Israel, if she will ever actually decide to go down that path. After all, her (maternal) grandfather was born Jewish, no? That should be enough for her to immigrate to Israel based on Israel’s Law of Return, assuming that no right-wing Israeli jackass politicians will actually amend it to make it more restrictive in the future. (There was a serious attempt to do so last year, but it thankfully failed once Hamas attacked Israel. An unintended positive side effect of an extraordinarily atrocious and horrific tragedy.)
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She might be accepted by a Reform synagogue here in the US without any conversion. Since I am personally the grandchild of a Jew (paternal grandfather), this is the route that I myself might eventually be interested in taking. I’m not interested in converting to any branch of Judaism that still only recognizes matrilineal descent since I’m not very fond of a religion that de facto gives its women a carte blanche to intermarry while denying its men the very same opportunity.
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BTW, there’s an interesting book out there called The Holocaust in the Soviet Union by Yitzhak Arad. You can find it for free on LibGen. It’s in English and was written by an Israeli Jew of ex-USSR (Lithuanian) descent. It’s very informative in terms of both the demographic data, the background, and the Holocaust itself. Sometimes rather graphic as well. Maybe your daughter might be interested in it once she’s older? It talks about, for instance, just how many Jews (out of how many in total) were evacuated from various USSR cities as the Nazis were approaching these cities in Operation Barbarossa. (My own Jewish paternal grandfather–back when he was 12 years old–and his family successfully evacuated from Vinnytsia to the Soviet interior in 1941 during Operation Barbarossa, first to Stalingrad, and then to Samara/Kuybyshev Oblast once the Nazis were approaching onto Stalingrad.)
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In fact, the eagerness with which Israeli Jewish right-wing politicians (often religious Jews) have pushed to repeal the Grandchild Clause of Israel’s Law of Return prior to October 7 suggests that the warmth that such people actually have towards people such as myself, or your daughter for that matter, is very limited unless such people would actually be willing to undergo a conversion to Judaism that is done in a way that is actually approved by the Israeli Chief Rabbinate, which of course is obviously completely out of the question for someone like myself.
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