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Originally Posted by DuskyRose
Some were a shortlist of mandatory books, some a long list we could pick from. Some you had to be ready to answer questions and be ready to discuss in class, (questions that weren't in the cliff-notes versions) and some that we had to write reports on to turn in on the first day of class.
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This is the part that's blowing my mind just a bit. I'm just trying to imagine how any teacher at a state funded school actually (
actually mind you) has the authority to assign what amounts to homework over the summer break? Stuff that is literally due the first day back, that will be graded. Seems to me that no matter how good of an idea continuing to read over the summer break might be, making it truly "mandatory" (as in a graded part of the curriculum) is a giant overreach from an authority standpoint. Do teacher's truly have this authority from a legal, or state BOE standpoint? Or have they simply never been been challenged on something they have no authority to actually require?