2026-07-16 22:36 UTC
@chozari@aus.social @andyjennings@aus.social
My own school years seemed to be full of novels about inappropriate relationships. The Go-between (child used as messenger in relationship between “lady” & gardener), The Mango Tree (teen boy seduced by teacher) & Sons & Lovers by DH Lawrence which killed my interest in fiction for a few years. Makes me wonder about the head of English in my high school..,
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@Susan60@aus.social 2026-07-16 22:41
@chozari@aus.social @andyjennings@aus.social A very disturbed child I know of was supposed to read Elise Wiesel’s Night. I read it when one of my kid’s read it for school. Harrowing. We can’t keep kids in cotton wool, but nor should we blithely immerse them in deeply challenging texts having little or no idea about their state of mental health and what’s going on in their own lives.