[Right Side of History] Happy Juneteenth, Americanos!
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It’s ebonics, they try to keep jamming poor language and grammar down our throats. I was depressed in high school because the classes were so dumbed down I began thinking this is all we have managed? I became a liberal because they pretended to aspire for more. After taking my education into my own hands I realized that these cunts try to make kids stupid so their policies make sense. Imagine trying to teach Ancient Greek or Latin in today’s classrooms, or even something like Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Instead we get preselected snippets of preapproved books to teach a dogmatic perspective and heaven forbid if it isn’t diverse. Chinua Achebe was required reading for diversity but heaven forbid we teach Paradise Lost or Heart of Darkness.
I think Hamlet was the only part of the high school English curriculum I really appreciated and even then I suspect it had something to do with it ending with a pile of bodies. The literature that gets taught in schools is by and large pretentious horseshit. No one made me read Dune, Heinlein or Tolkien, but we sure as hell read some drug fueled fragmented narrative from some Vietnamese guy that made no sense and added nothing to my understanding or appreciation of literature.
I completely stumbled into my favorite book of high school. My final was to write about ANY book EVER suggested by the AP exam… I landed on “The Death of Ivan Ilych” because it was short and holy hell is it good. Thought-provoking, beautiful, inspiring. It’s really a must-read for those who contemplate their own death and religion at all.
I graduated in 99 so we read Shakespeare and Animal farm in high school along with moby dick. I don’t think it’s bad to bring in other writers but you can’t ignore the classics of western literature