Prevent Michael Gove from banning American and foreign novels in British classrooms
novels from British classrooms, as he believes that our children should
only study work by British authors.
This is wrong on so many levels. It would deprive our children from some of the greatest literary works in history, including John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, Arthur Miller’s The Crucible and the Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird.
It would rob school students of intimate insight into the very different issues, values, cultural nuances and linguistic quirks of another continent, thousands of miles away, and yet delivered in their native language.
American literature also holds up a mirror to Britain’s own very rich canon of domestic literature, allowing students to consider it in a different, more informed light.
What we are facing here is cultural edification being snatched from all due to the parochial idiocy of one man. It must be stopped! Please sign here if you agree.
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May 26, 2014
I have been reading your stories about how these books shaped your own education and it honestly blows me away. It feels like every time I check this page there is a new perspective that makes me realize just how much this matters. You all are the ones keeping this conversation alive while I just try to keep up.
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GOVE NEEDS TO STOP MESSING WITH THE CURRICULUM. Let kids read real literature not just what he thinks they should see.
This is honestly ridiculous. To Kill a Mockingbird was the best book we read all year in school. Why limit kids like this?
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Prevent Michael Gove from banning American and foreign novels in British classrooms
novels from British classrooms, as he believes that our children should
only study work by British authors.
This is wrong on so many levels. It would deprive our children from some of the greatest literary works in history, including John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, Arthur Miller’s The Crucible and the Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird.
It would rob school students of intimate insight into the very different issues, values, cultural nuances and linguistic quirks of another continent, thousands of miles away, and yet delivered in their native language.
American literature also holds up a mirror to Britain’s own very rich canon of domestic literature, allowing students to consider it in a different, more informed light.
What we are facing here is cultural edification being snatched from all due to the parochial idiocy of one man. It must be stopped! Please sign here if you agree.
Updates
May 26, 2014
I have been reading your stories about how these books shaped your own education and it honestly blows me away. It feels like every time I check this page there is a new perspective that makes me realize just how much this matters. You all are the ones keeping this conversation alive while I just try to keep up.
3 Comments
so backwards. limiting literature like this only hurts the students. leave the books alone.
GOVE NEEDS TO STOP MESSING WITH THE CURRICULUM. Let kids read real literature not just what he thinks they should see.
This is honestly ridiculous. To Kill a Mockingbird was the best book we read all year in school. Why limit kids like this?
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so backwards. limiting literature like this only hurts the students. leave the books alone.