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Originally Posted by willravel
It's the idea that some thoughts aren't acceptable in schools that bothers me. School should be about broadening one's horizons. And quite frankly John Steinbeck sucks and I would have much rather read Catcher in the Rye or I Know Why a Caged Bird Sings than Grapes of Wrath. It would have made my learning experience more rich, but neither of those books appeared in my high school library despite being some of the best ever written.
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See, maybe I was a weird one. My parents promoted my sister and I to learn. We were members of book clubs and my parents and grandma were very open politically. I read the newspaper from front to back, I watched the news and I learned all I could.
I think it's up to the families to help their children, just like mine did for me. I also realize that today we have a problem with that because economically both parents usually have to work and aren't there to encourage their kids. But that is another issue.
Both of mine worked.... but mom worked 3rd shifts and it is a different situation today, my parents by the time I was in high school never worried about bills. Parents today worry about them daily and that stress adversely affects the family and the quality time they can give their children.
But again, another issue.