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Kids need to be slapped around and told to learn something for once. Learning new things is all about having to retool your thought processes to accomodate a new style of learning and a new set of data you're not used to having to deal with. Yeah, lots of stuff is hard to learn. Deal with it, and TRY to learn, or go ahead and be a janitor for the rest of your life. I enjoy a litter-free floor as much as the next person.
Also, re: white male authors of the past...
It's history. We can't change that all the old literature is written by white males. It's still historical, it's still perfectly valid, and it's nonsense to suggest that it's somehow oppressive to people of this day. Also keep in mind that most writers, historically speaking, lived a very meager existence- many of the most famous of which dying penniless, despite their genius... so we're not talking about some rich, white, slave-owning bastard male... more often than not, they were people who simply had a flair for writing and got very little compensation for their gift.
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