Critical Race Theory

[arewethereyet]

I don’t have any firsthand experience with it, but I think it’s like, you know, kinda bad and stuff.

Any parent has the right to decide what books their own children read. This right does not extend to other people’s children.

Boru

I'm surprised you feel this way.  So, you feel that children should be denied the opportunity to read books that describe valid experiences regarding race and oppression?  I don't pretend to suggest that parent's don't have the right to control what their children read, but would you not agree that this "right" is being exaggerated and bloated in the determination to promote an image of "white goodness"?  IOW, I view these parents as big liars who are only perpetuating the problems of racial bias by insisting that these types of books are damaging to their kids.

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Banning the book will make kids want to read it.  Good job, Texas.

That's possible, but then it isn't easy getting kids to read in the first place.  Now if this were music we would be in business.

Are you a parent? I'm curious what experience you bring to the topic.

I have three grown kids. I never censored their reading and didn't take too kindly to anyone who tried to. From my set of classics that I had as a child, I read the un-PC versions of books to my kids though explained why some words weren't acceptable any more.

I had one teacher tell me that my son was one of the few kids in her second grade class who knew the difference between fantasy and reality. The worst way to teach kids is to hide things from them...teach them the good, the bad, and the ugly and explain why each is so.

If you have trouble getting kids to read, maybe it's because you should have been reading to them from birth on.