This time it's Homer's Odyssey that gets the cold shoulder from Woke "Teachers" at Lawrence, Massachusetts High School.
"Erasing the history of great works only limits the ability of children to become literate.”He’s right. If there is harm in classic literature, it comes from not teaching it. Students excused from reading foundational texts may imagine themselves lucky to get away with YA novels instead—that’s what the #DisruptTexts people want—but compared with their better-educated peers they will suffer a poverty of language and cultural reference. Worse, they won’t even know it.
Read the story on the WSJ here: Opinion | Even Homer Gets Mobbed: A Massachusetts school has banned ‘The Odyssey.’
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