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Originally Posted by abookreader
I do often talk to Teachers and if I ask them "Why do you choose this book? Do you ever use that book in your classroom?" I find that they are extremely aware of certain books or issues that are likely to cause trouble and they consciously make an effort to only utilize literature which will not cause a fuss.
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When I was in school (both HS and college) we constantly discussed the reasons for book choices. I was always advocating for more interesting (thus harder) text than we were assigned. We were told that the major factor in deciding which books to teach was the length. Most of the books taught were under 200 pages. So instead of reading interesting subjects (at the time I was heavily into epic poetry and Greek/Roman mythology), I was forced to endure
The Awakening,
The Scarlett Letter, and
Bartleby the Scrivener multiple times.
I finally got ONE teacher to work me through ONE epic poem,
Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came by Robert Browning, but she was very surly about the whole thing (I guess she had to brush up on her Browning).
