VANITY - I just learned of a reading list at our local elementary school.

Me | 7/28/18 | Me

[Blue House Sue]

Are all those required reading or optional reading?

[MV=PY]

"Are all those required reading or optional reading?"

I don't know - they are listed in a newsletter I got.

[Walrus]

Naw. Go to the root of the problem. Bring queer beatings back into vogue.

[Bringbackthedraft]

The amount of left leaning teachers in the Public schools is over whelming. The schools are propaganda centers, there to sway thinking into the Liberal agendas. Check out your local school boards, and who the hell you are appointing. Most people ignore the school board elections so the left finds it easy to get themselves elected to control them. What you get is what you pay for, applies to elections too.

[Ciaphas Cain]

I thought it was sick satire.

Amazon proved me wrong.

The uhhh... "editorial reviews":

"Bittersweet, engrossing, richly textured and redolent of truth - a harrowing but incredibly rewarding read."
S. Bear Bergman- Butch is a Noun, The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You

"Sassafras Lowrey is so much more than one or the other anything. Ze is for sure a vital voice of hir generation, expressing as ze does, many mutually exclusive points of view on politically and emotionally live wire subjects... I find hir work filled with mischief, mayhem, and multiple meanings."
- Kate Bornstein - Gender Outlaw

"I'm not sure that I've ever seen a book that explores the intoxication and viciousness of peer pressure in queer lives with such candor. Goddamn this book is brave -- I can't wait to see the havoc it wreaks."
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore -Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?

"Roving Pack is a rough and tumble, tender-hearted novel that grips you in its teeth and won't let go. A satisfying debut by a writer to watch."
Zoe Whittall -Holding Still For As Long As Possible, Bottle Rocket Hearts

"Sassafras Lowrey is an urgent and vital voice in contemporary queer literature and with Roving Pack, a harrowing, hilarious and hip page-turner, ze takes the reader along for a wild and wonderful ride through a blossoming young queer culture"
Charles Rice-González -CHULITO

And the bio of the author, Sassafras Lowrey:

Sassafras Lowrey got hir start writing as a straight-edge queer punk zinester in Portland, Oregon, and grew up to become the 2013 winner of the Lambda Literary Emerging Writer Award. Along the way, ze changed coasts, genders, and several other things besides. Hir first book, the Kicked Out anthology (www.KickedOutAnthology.com), gathered voices of current and formerly homeless queer youth alongside policy makers and activists, and was honoured by the American Library Association and the Lambda Literary Foundation. Hir debut novel, Roving Pack (www.RovingPack.com) chronicles the underground lives of gender-radical queer youth searching for identity, community, and belonging. Roving Pack was honored by the American Library Association and won a Rainbow Book Award for Transgender Fiction. Ze also edited Leather Ever After, Honorable Mention winner of the National Leather Association Writing Award. Sassafras' latest book, "Lost Boi" (Arsenal Pulp Press) is a queer/punk retelling of the classic Peter Pan story and is now available everywhere!

Hir work has received acknowledgement and awards from the Astraea Foundation Lesbian Writers Fund, Poets & Writers, and Queer Heroes of the Pacific Northwest. Ze has toured widely, giving readings, workshops, and keynotes at colleges, conferences, bookstores, festivals, and squats ranging from Atlanta to Berlin to Oakland to Amsterdam. Sassafras has contributed to numerous anthologies and publications, and ze believes storytelling is essential in the creation of social change. Ze lives and writes in Brooklyn with hir partner, two dogs of dramatically different sizes, two bossy cats, and a mostly feral kitten. Learn more at www.SassafrasLowrey.com

And here's the "about the author" in the book itself:

Sassafras Lowrey is an internationally award-winning storyteller, author, artist, and educator. Sassafras is the editor of the two time American Library Association honored, and Lambda Literary Finalist Kicked Out anthology (KickedOutAnthology.com) which brought together the voices of current and former homeless LGBTQ youth. Hir prose has been included in numerous anthologies and magazines, and recently ze received an award from the Astrea Lesbian Writers Fund. Sassafras regularly lectures and facilitates LGBTQ storytelling workshops at colleges and conferences across America. Hir debut novel, Roving Pack (RovingPack.com), was released autumn 2012, and ze is currently editing Leather Ever After, an anthology of BDSM fairy tale retellings to be released in early 2013. Sassafras lives in Brooklyn with hir family. To learn more about Sassafras and hir work, visit SassafrasLowrey.com

And here is the author hizirself...

[Slyfox]

Maybe it is better that kids don't know how to read. /sarc

[DoughtyOne]

Just stand up to them, and put an end to this nonsense.

We’re blaming them for something we haven’t refused to allow them to do.

We’ve allowed this. When it was proposed that this “stuff” be taught in our schools, we should have screamed bloody hell, and said NO WAY!

As for the Islam teaching, the same thing.

How do they get away with that when we can’t even mention Jesus or God there?

Whole communities should attend any school meeting and demand redress.

The Department of Education and it’s masters at the U. N. brought this on us.

[Chickensoup]

get out of public education from pre k to college.

it is toxic.

[farming pharmer]

After reading that filth:
1) I'm going to go take a shower.
2) I'm going to go eat the dinner (which my female wife has prepared) with my normal, well adjusted family.
3) I'm going to read a passage or two from the Bible.
4) I'm going to have normal sex with my normal wife.
5) I'm going to go sleep, my family and I safely insulated from the absolutely putrid filth I was exposed to today.

P.S. Brooklyn's gone homo, eh?

[vladimir998]

Public Schools = Child Abuse.

[samtheman]

And gallows.

[Original Lurker]

People who think it’s the tax payer’s responsibility to pay for the education of their kids deserve every form of hell and its abomination that enters into the minds for their progeny.

[mabarker1]

If I had Children or Grandchildren in that scrool (Rush™️) I would be holding a Book burning party. All of these books would be glued, duct taped and strapping taped to whoever made up the list. A dash of diesel and a propane torch. No mention in the muzzie books of Slit Throats, Beheadings and Bombings. Utterly Absurd!!!

[mabarker1]

Lord of the Flies

[mabarker1]

Bkm

[madison10]

No way they would let THAT one be read.

[mabarker1]

More info please?

[mabarker1]

I like the way You think🤔

[Lazamataz]

Our reading list:

Johnny Tremaine: In colonial Boston, a young silversmith’s apprentice injures his hand, and finds himself befriended by the Sons of Liberty and caught up in events of the American Revolution.

Brave New World: begins in an uncomfortably sterile and controlled futuristic society, commonly referred to as “the World State.”

1984: In George Orwell’s 1984, Winston Smith wrestles with oppression in Oceania, a place where the Party scrutinizes human actions with ever-watchful Big Brother. Defying a ban on individuality, Winston dares to express his thoughts in a diary and pursues a relationship with Julia.

Farenheit 451: Set in the 24th century, Fahrenheit 451 tells the story of the protagonist, Guy Montag. At first, Montag takes pleasure in his profession as a fireman, burning illegally owned books and the homes of their owners. However, Montag soon begins to question the value of his profession and, in turn, his life.

Foundation: Harry Seldon, brilliant mathematician, invents a branch of science known as Psychohistory, in which he is able to predict the decline and fall of the Galactic Empire. This book details his attempt to shorten the Dark Ages that will follow.

Gotta give my teachers credit.

[mabarker1]

Thank You now I cannot eat dinner. GAAACK!