No More Classic Literature In Public Schools : The Last Resistance

No More Classic Literature In Public Schools : The Last Resistance

Well, let’s all wave goodbye to well-rounded education in the United States. Ok, we waved goodbye to that a long time ago–I mean, look at public schools. But a new initiative is set to take what little well-roundedness is left in public schools and flush it down the toilet.


According to the Telegraph:

“American literature classics are to be replaced by insulation manuals and plant inventories in US classrooms by 2014…A new school curriculum which will affect 46 out of 50 states will make it compulsory for at least 70 per cent of books studied to be non-fiction, in an effort to ready pupils for the workplace…Books such as JD Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird will be replaced by “informational texts” approved by the Common Core State Standards…Suggested non-fiction texts include Recommended Levels of Insulation by the US Environmental Protection Agency, and the Invasive Plant Inventory, by California’s Invasive Plant Council.”

First, music programs in many public schools are eliminated, now classic literature. There are many reasons why this is a terrible idea, and I’ll go through them one by one:


1. Public schools’ failure to adequately prepare children for the working world is not the fault of literature. It is not a dearth of “informational texts” that is the problem. A broken system is the problem. As long as the Liberals refuse to allow school choice and actual reforms, and instead, capitulate to every demand of the teachers’ union, there will be no real improvement.

CONTINUED:  http://lastresistance.com/708/no-more-classic-literature-in-public-schools/