National Education Association’s summer reading selections aim to indoctrinate kids, not educate

[Kamaji]

The National Education Association’s summer reading selections aim to indoctrinate kids, not educate

By Karol Markowicz
July 10, 2023

Why did the National Education Association, the country’s largest teachers union, put porn on its recommended-reading list?

The NEA presumably listed Maia Kobabe’s “Gender Queer: A Memoir” in its “Great Summer Reads for Educators” under “banned” books because Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, correctly, got it out of his state’s school libraries.

The book is aimed at teens but was found in several elementary schools.

It contains truly shocking, explicit descriptions and drawings of sexual acts.

The NEA pretends the book’s LGBT characters got it removed from school libraries, writing on its website: “Twilight used to be at the top of banned-book lists for its racy content. Today, those lists are much more likely to feature LGBTQ+ people or People of Color.”

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/07/10/the-national-education-associations-summer-reading-selections-aim-to-indoctrinate-kids-not-educate/

[mountaineer]

I don't know whether this is true everywhere, but I've noticed my local library doesn't have much classic fiction. No 1984, no Brave New World, only one Ray Bradbury work. Everything else on the fiction shelves is popular stuff like Danielle Steele and various NYT best-selling recent stuff. What is availalble in the juvenile fiction section is unknown to me, but I certainly hope it's not just woke leftist indoctrination. Granted, it's a public library in a very small town.

If your library doesn't have Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables or other classics available for your kiddies and grandkids to check out, then get over to a bookstore or check online, and buy them tout de suite, before they're memory holed forever.

[libertybele]

I don't know whether this is true everywhere, but I've noticed my local library doesn't have much classic fiction. No 1984, no Brave New World, only one Ray Bradbury work. Everything else on the fiction shelves is popular stuff like Danielle Steele and various NYT best-selling recent stuff. What is availalble in the juvenile fiction section is unknown to me, but I certainly hope it's not just woke leftist indoctrination. Granted, it's a public library in a very small town.

If your library doesn't have Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables or other classics available for your kiddies and grandkids to check out, then get over to a bookstore or check online, and buy them tout de suite, before they're memory holed forever.

I did a catalog search of our local library and they do have a couple of copies of each.  I never read Anne of Green Gables, but I loved Little Women. 

[Kamaji]

I don't know whether this is true everywhere, but I've noticed my local library doesn't have much classic fiction. No 1984, no Brave New World, only one Ray Bradbury work. Everything else on the fiction shelves is popular stuff like Danielle Steele and various NYT best-selling recent stuff. What is availalble in the juvenile fiction section is unknown to me, but I certainly hope it's not just woke leftist indoctrination. Granted, it's a public library in a very small town.

If your library doesn't have Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables or other classics available for your kiddies and grandkids to check out, then get over to a bookstore or check online, and buy them tout de suite, before they're memory holed forever.

And, if one has the wherewithal, consider buying a second copy to donate to the library (then keep tabs on it to make sure it gets onto the shelves and doesn't get chucked).