To encourage more effectively a life-long habit of pleasurable reading, many public and private elementary schools and even some middle schools in New York are now starting “reading workshops” which abandon the traditional teaching of previously-required texts like To Kill a Mockingbird or Huckleberry Finn, encouraging children instead to bring in books of their own choosing to read. Okay, so what if a precocious kid rummages through dad’s library and brings in Lady Chatterley’s Lover or The Happy Hooker?
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31 August 2009: “The Happy Hooker” for Kids
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I was reading adult books at 6th grade or so. I really did not understand some of the “adult” passages then but I don’t think they did me any harm. Genesis in the Old Testament is as inappropriate for children as anything I saw.
If they want to read it let them read it. I think they should have Mylee Cyrus read Lolita in audiobook format… That would sell.
Generally I do not post on blogs, but I would like to say that this post really forced me to do so, Excellent post!