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That still sounds better than I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

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ORIGINAL: jlf1961

Wouldnt the kids be better off reading the Kama Sutra?

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ORIGINAL: Nosathro

When I was in High School reading was required....I didn't like some of the books but some I did like The Hobbit, The Grapes of Wrath, The Time Machine, The Ox bow Incident, Master of the World, Alice Through the Looking-Glass, Rikki Tikki Tavi and All Creatures Great and Small. I also enjoy reading plays like Death of a Sales Man, The Crucible and Macbeth. I have not read this book so I can't say anything about it, but I do agree that reading should be required.

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ORIGINAL: Nosathro

When I was in High School reading was required....I didn't like some of the books but some I did like The Hobbit, The Grapes of Wrath, The Time Machine, The Ox bow Incident, Master of the World, Alice Through the Looking-Glass, Rikki Tikki Tavi and All Creatures Great and Small. I also enjoy reading plays like Death of a Sales Man, The Crucible and Macbeth. I have not read this book so I can't say anything about it, but I do agree that reading should be required.

And no politician required you to be tested on each of these books or plays with the demand that, if you failed any one of those tests, you would not be allowed to graduate high school.

Suggesting that high school students be assigned to read Atlas Shrugged as part of their assigned readings versus requiring passing a test on Atlas Shrugged as a requirement to graduate high school are two different things.

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ORIGINAL: Nosathro
I was feeling a little nostalgic, I enjoy reading. No not a politician but my teachers did test me on them. California does require an exit exam to be taken and passed in order to graduate for high school.

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Does anyone really give a shit about Idaho?

I can think of one former poster who did


but in the larger sense,no.....no one gives a shit about Idaho(though they do have potatoes....lol)

Exactly. When this happens in a real state, call me.

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Of course, what this GOP legislator may not be considering is that assigning kids a book is one of the best ways to make them hate it.

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ORIGINAL: Moonhead
Well, yeah, but a teacher's choices are a separate kettle of fish, mercifully.

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ORIGINAL: Moonhead
Well, yeah, but a teacher's choices are a separate kettle of fish, mercifully.

Yeah the Bill is a really clear abuse of power.

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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer
Just a side note: is anyone in the USA aware of just how little Ayn Rand is cared about elsewhere? She doesn't figure on any course in politics (or literature, or anything else) that I know of here in the UK. She's unknown. Her writings don't matter. Surely, educators would want *internationally* respected authors to be on any syllabus? Just a thought.

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ORIGINAL: Moonhead
Well, yeah, but a teacher's choices are a separate kettle of fish, mercifully.

Yeah the Bill is a really clear abuse of power.

I wonder what conservatives would do/say, if we required students to read and understand actual scientific journals? Or economic journals? Or study the actual quotes of previous founding fathers and be able to tell the difference between a dude whom lived in the 18th century and one written in the 20th or 21th century. I imagine conservatives would get very angry that we are teaching our youth....TO THINK FOR THEMSELVES!

• A Conservative interpretation of the US Constitution
  
• Personal Responsibility
  
• Help for the truly needy
  
• Limited Government
  
• Consumption Tax (non-profit charities and food exempt)
  

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ORIGINAL: Moonhead
Not quite unknown, sadly. She's a biggish cult, particularly with monetarist leaning high tories and the sort of media pundit who thinks that the middle class white bloke is being horribly oppressed.

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ORIGINAL: Moonhead

I know you used the correct spelling: "cults" would only be incorrect if the high tories we're talking about were Clarkson or Winner...

(Seriously -and unfortunately- the quasi literate special pleader does have a following over here: it's just nothing like as extensive as the one she has over there. Nothing on an academic basis, but plenty of "if you don't get this, you aren't a weal and twue conservative...")

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I don't see that it matters much what the kids are assigned to read if their curriculum doesn't require competency in English.

K.

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ORIGINAL: erieangel

I actually read all of the Canterbury Tales, Inferno and A Communist Manifesto in college. I've also read about 10 pages of an Ayn Rand book and couldn't read any more. There aren't very books that I simply can't read. A James Mitchner novel at the age of 14, with all of his scientific and geological facts was more readable than Ayn Rand can ever be for me.

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ORIGINAL: Moonhead
Well, yeah, but a teacher's choices are a separate kettle of fish, mercifully.

Yeah the Bill is a really clear abuse of power.

I wonder what conservatives would do/say, if we required students to read and understand actual scientific journals? Or economic journals? Or study the actual quotes of previous founding fathers and be able to tell the difference between a dude whom lived in the 18th century and one written in the 20th or 21th century. I imagine conservatives would get very angry that we are teaching our youth....TO THINK FOR THEMSELVES!