>>25113458
>the actual high school reading list of the Chicago school district
Um, source?

>>25113458
>high school reading list of the Chicago school district
So no one is reading this

>>25113458
>Jamila Lyiscott: 3 ways to speak English
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9fmJ5xQ_mc
lol this is hilarious

This is complete garbage. 80% of those titles are literally who diversity picks. The point of literature in school is to provide students with a cultural background for society. This does nothing but teach them contempt for literature.

>>25113458

Without a source, it could just be someone trying to fool boomers on facebook groups.

>>25113519
its so bad you cant believe it?

>D.C. Public Schools intends to make changes to students' English and Learning Arts curriculum. It aims to reduce the time students spend on reading instruction.

how does any parent with a conscience send their to kid to american public school?

>tfw having to read Descartes, Flaubert and Apollinaire as a young frog
feels good being french

>>25113725
just dont let wokies ever get in charge of education like we did

>>25113458
It's only a little bit more woke than the list I had to do throughout high school in Seattle. though that was some time ago...

Eh who cares about the retarded kids? The real danger is that the upper-ish classes themselves are now virtually illiterate. Many ‘smart’ kids and adults walking around who never read anything, the majority even. We’re entering a dark age or are already there really. If you are a real reader you feel like you’re in a barbarian land even when interacting with your class peers.

>>25113772
they've replaced all intellectual activity with political sloganeering. its sad

>>25113707
>parent with a conscience
Washington DC is overwhelmingly black.

>>25113458
That list can't be real.

>>25113471
>>25113519
>>25113867
https://www.cps.edu/sites/skyline/curriculum/ela/
>select grade level
>open Scope & Sequence (in incognito)
>ctrl + f "text list"
>click

It's real bros

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>>25113986
Chicago-sama...
I...I kneel...
This is true social engineering

>Unit 4. Grade 11.2a: Engaging in Self-Reflection Through Character Analysis in Hamlet and Kendrick Lamar
>In this unit, students begin to consider the essential question of “What is the benefit of comparing who I was yesterday to who I am today?” through the study of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and the work of Kendrick Lamar. As students engage in an analysis of characters in Shakespeare’s play and Lamar’s song, “PRIDE.,” they consider how an individual’s ability to reflect on the past can shape the present and future.
you will live to see manmade horrors, etc.

>>25114016
The extra irony is that by not teaching fundamentals these kids won't even be able to get anything of value out of Kendrick.
They will literally be too stupid for song lyrics.

>>25114028
Well, not for his garbage.

>>25113504
>educate a generation of sois
>use state funds to purchase their soi books to educate the next one
one hand washes the other

>>25114016
Out of all the bullshit they have in there, this is the one you take issue with?

>>25114040
In the suggestion they're making that Shakespeare and some shit pop artist are artistically comparable, yeah I take offense

I'll also add that besids the reading problems, they can't write either. I see many 5th, 6th graders who have trouble recognizing letters, distinguishing a b from a d, etc. They have no fine motor skills and write on par with kindergarteners from 20 years ago. If they're typing, then they'll rely completely on speech-to-text.

>>25114016
>“What is the benefit of comparing who I was yesterday to who I am today?”
Buh I dint hab no breakfas

>>25113458
I genuinely can't believe information like this are not circulated online as a tragedy of the school system. American culture is today so clearly degenerate no one even cares, and this passes unnoticed or as adequate for schoolchildren

>>25114464
Yes. Most people have no idea how bad it's gotten. They don't know how much the school system has been ideologically hijacked since 2020. But then a lot of them would make excuses for it if they were confronted with it.

>>25114464
We're on /lit/ and not even all users here are offended or see what's wrong with this vile garbage pile of a curriculum.

>>25113458
The problem is that people don't consume books anymore, and I mean it in general. Some people read literature, but most reading is already done in the short form—short stories, essays, maybe poems, brief reports, and so on.
Some people believe this is a problem that is born from the new generation, but they have it backwards. Children and young adults mostly consume whatever they are being fed and what society presents as interesting, cool or whatever the kids are calling it nowadays. And there is a huge industry producing short works (in about any kind of product even) because it's a better way to keep the economic machine running.
It's noticeable in academia: we don't read books, we read papers. Most research is forgettable, and in most cases waiting to publish until you have a large study wouldn't hurt the advancement of science. But the more you publish the more you add to your curriculum, the more the university boasts about how much they publish, the most your department boast about how much they publish, you get paid more, you can ask for more money, and so on---and I believe this is becoming true everywhere.
Is it good? Probably not. But not many people are willing to devote years to write a novel that very likely is going to be completely ignored, when they can write 20 short stories and maybe sell a couple.

Did a little bit of Googling on this. Basically, as you can guess the Chicago school district is mostly black or latino and only 10% white. This curriculum isn't strictly enforced but highly encouraged. According to this article it's primarily wholly black schools adopting it and the few white majority ones are not. Yeah, obviously most of the picks are shit but dumb but if it gets a few ghetto kids into reading maybe it's worth trying.
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2023/3/31/23663499/chicago-public-schools-skyline-curriculum-covid-recovery/
>Majority Black schools have adopted the curriculum at the highest rates. Campuses that serve mostly white students — only about two dozen districtwide — have been slowest to embrace Skyline, Chalkbeat and WBEZ found.

>>25114569
I don't think any YN is gonna fall in love with books by reading a "Afro-Latin@ Poets" anthology. If you try to pander with overtures to hip hop they just see how corny all that is compared with the real thing.

Conversely who this does affect is promising black students and it turns them against good literature and feeds a chip on their shoulder. Thus we end up with sub-literate English phds who have never read Melville but produce works of genius like this video >>25113500

>>25114521
Why should anyone care about what a bunch of niggers aren't going to be reading?

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>>25113458
USA education system overrun by lefties

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>>25114405
>If they're typing, then they'll rely completely on speech-to-text.
Please tell me this is a lie.

>>25116541
Hey, nope. I worked with six graders. Even if it's an essay they'll speak that whole thing into the mic. The software isn't perfect and so it'll end up a garbled mess.

>>25113458
So this torture list is why people drop out?
Huh.

>>25116676
No, that's not why kids in Chicago are dropping out.

>>25113458
There probably isn't a single white child in that entire school district so it makes sense. These kids were never going to be literate anyway.

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>>25113458
>Was mass literacy just a fleeting phenomenon of the 20th century?

American literacy in the Civil War and immediately after was higher, with King James bibles and itinerant seasonal tutors in agricultural areas. Literacy was commonplace, until mass education turned the public into wet-LLMs-- the problem aren't the dogshit to random selections, it's the normgroid commisars fresh outta the diploma mills assigning busy work and the students only being required to parrot back plot points. They aren't being shown how to engage with text, or think. And the last boomer holdouts that might've inserted some actual grammar/logic by Middle School aged out a decade ago.

I can remember the vast majority of kids struggling or barely managing to read at best even when I was going through school. That's across multiple states in schools full of white kids. You're really surprised that after the cell phone explosion that literacy capabilities are completely fucked? I'm not. Our country is literally 90%+ morons.

>>25116933
>learn English by reading the bible, a jewish book originally written in greek then latin

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>>25114016
>Kendrick Lamar
added to the list

>>25116944
Being ideologically loaded and culturally borrowed doesn't meant it won't work.

>>25113458
Shakespeare just sticking out like a sore thumb, lol. Why even keep him around among this trash? Must be for the extra-refined palate cherishing white man humiliation, throw in some Shakespeare next to twerking niggers to emphasize the full measure of defeat.

>>25117201
It'll be a 100% intersectional reading anyway. Why are we reading a white guy? Why is the white man king? Why are the women not in positions of power? Solipsistic hermitage is really the correct way to live by now.

>>25113776
Not only that, but all intellectual activity that isn't political in nature is seen as suspect, leading to a negative feedback loop of retardation.

I'm just going to say it: Literacy in 2026 is overrated unless you're becoming an expert in a field and arguably like 80% of people really don't need to know how to read at a high school senior level.

I mean what is MUCH more needed arguably is:

1)A Curiosity to know
2)Understanding the interpretations of it
3)An understanding that you're not an expert in the field

The trvke that killed the boomer: Someone who AI summaries the constitution and court interpretations is far more knowledgeable high IQ compared to someone who can read 1700s old English documents. Same thing with someone who just ai summarizes and watched YouTube videos of a bunch of 1900s documents than spends 7-12 hours unironically reading boomer slop on a weekly basis.

>>25117217
...How are you going to develop this keen eye for hermeneutics? By reading a lot. You can't... do... fucking anything without first putting a lot of effort into learning it. You are absolutely retarded and much of the reason I have no hope for the future. A curious person learns things.

>>25117220
No. I don't need to start at pieces of paper to develop curiosity. Sorry boomer, your dinosaur ways are dead.

>>25117324
Generational blame-games are for morons. Sigh. This place is lost. Has been for a while. Everything is.

>>25117330
Way are too going to do so if it, Boomy? Force everyone to read your slop in schools? Even the teachers are AI summarizing your boring books lol

>>25117217
>literacy is overrated
>ESL
pottery