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Evaluating Baton Rouge High’s summer reading list for my son

Posted on 5/24/22 at 6:34 am
Posted by Dominus5150
Member since Aug 2020
357 posts
Posted on 5/24/22 at 6:34 am
I was expecting every book to be off the charts on the cultural Marxism level. This doesn’t seem to be the case.

There is one selection where the main character is black, queer AND transgender.

I’m not trying to hide ideas from him but I just don’t want him to hate reading. I read the autobiography of Malcolm X when I was twenty and I felt like a grew a lot from that.

Do you guys know of a good review site that may have the least amount of bias?

Posted by SLafourche07
Member since Feb 2008
10051 posts
Posted on 5/24/22 at 7:26 am to
quote:

Evaluating Baton Rouge High’s summer reading list for my son




Doesn’t list a single book in the list…
Posted by Lawyered
The Sip
Member since Oct 2016
37815 posts
Posted on 5/24/22 at 7:41 am to
Have they modernized it any?

Making kids read a tale of two cities is just torture .

Posted by Dominus5150
Member since Aug 2020
357 posts
Posted on 5/24/22 at 9:40 am to
Reading list

LINK
Posted by hogfly
Fayetteville, AR
Member since May 2014
5128 posts
Posted on 5/24/22 at 11:52 am to
The Sherman Alexie novel is hilarious and awesome.

Most of the nonfiction seems pretty standard and inoffensive, though it's definitely aimed at multicultural viewpoints (which isn't a bad thing).

Posted by Lawyered
The Sip
Member since Oct 2016
37815 posts
Posted on 5/24/22 at 3:22 pm to
I’m reading Friday night lights for my non fiction choice if it were me .

Enjoyable book

Sidenote: at least the kids have options now. We couldn’t pick. Each grade would have one designated book to read and that’s it when I was that age
Posted by alterego55
baton rouge
Member since Apr 2016
1528 posts
Posted on 5/24/22 at 4:00 pm to
friday night lights
mojo magic
Posted by Dominus5150
Member since Aug 2020
357 posts
Posted on 5/25/22 at 6:08 am to
We ended up selecting Sherman Alexie’s book and The American Dream?

Thanks
Posted by Toroballistic
Tallahassee
Member since Dec 2017
2196 posts
Posted on 6/8/22 at 11:45 am to
One of the books on the Non-Fiction list is:
Warhead: The True Story of
One Teen Who Almost Saved
the World


He almost saved the world? Did I sleep through the end of the world?
Posted by GOP_Tiger
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2005
20858 posts
Posted on 6/9/22 at 3:56 pm to
All Creatures Great and Small and its sequel All Things Bright and Beautiful are enjoyable classics -- recommended.

James Herriott was a veterinarian in Yorkshire, and the books are semi-autobiographical stories of life as a rural vet.

It's really shocking how little there is on the list that's more than a few decades old. Apparently, great literature was only just invented.
Posted by ecb
Member since Jul 2010
10142 posts
Posted on 6/9/22 at 4:59 pm to
The Scarlet Letter is the worst book ever written as I recall.
Posted by Mo Jeaux
Member since Aug 2008
62697 posts
Posted on 6/10/22 at 3:41 pm to
Seems pretty schlocky. Overwhelmingly female authors (shocker I know).
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