Children Young Adults Literature

When I read the article "Do Works by Men Implicated by #MeToo Belong in the Classroom" by Emma Goldberg I had lots of mixed emotions. First, I understand how she didn’t want to tell her class about the accusations made. The kids love the story and the words that were written out about the things they were going through personally. The connections we very powerful for those students and taking that away would just cause their world even more setbacks which they did not need. On the other hand, though I do understand how schools don't want to normalize the abuse aspects. I do think that banning them from the curriculum is not ok though. Students need to be able to know how to have hard conversation and be able to not just ignore the facts. In our current situation though they have full access to the internet so there for they can look up anything. Second my reaction and thoughts about the video "The Problem with Cancel Culture" ...

As we explore the topic of whether or not to have dark items in our children's stories, we have to hear from both sides before we can make our own viewpoint and thoughts on the debate. The first side is from Sherman Alexie and Alexie is on the side of we should include them into our children's literacy. He explains that books written for young people should deal with the dark subject because our child has already faced a lot of this thing in their life already. This gives the child an outlet to understand they are not alone and they can reach out and get help. With it being included it allows for more conversations about the hard matters, but it also allows us as educators to show them that we are not going to hide from the bad things. Also, when we do not include those matters, we are protecting our literacy because it’s got “privilege” which is just an excuse not to include it. The second viewpoint we have is that we should not include these topic...