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Comments

[grainne_mhaol]

I kinda feel like I've travelled through a time warp to the 80s in this thread.

'The work of worthy old dead white men' really hasn't been the defining criteria of "The Classics" for some time now. We've been working really hard on that.

[(Anonymous)]

Might it be a location thing? I'm not sure exactly how the school system works in the states, but is there a possibility that just cause there is a general push to making classics lists more than just dead white dudes, not every high school is actually following that?

I know around here you'd sometimes need everything short or actual force to get schools to change something they feel was totally working for everybody (even when it was not). Because, you know, status quo is so much easier than effort to change something. If there is no really force for getting high schools to change reading lists, I could definitely see many sticking to the same stuff they've always taught.

[lunabee34]

And thank goodness for that.

My high school English teacher was 92 when I was in her class...

[nyxelestia]

...so the old, dead white guys standard was still very strong in her class.

Though it also depends on where you are. Certainly in almost my entire school, that was largely the standard of "classics" literature. We got only a smattering of literature from women and minorities, and even an extremely vague overview of some major religious/influential literature from other cultures, but these were presented not as classics that we should know to function in society, but rather as extras that were just meant to "broaden our horizons" in some capacity.

And I graduated high school two years ago, so this is a fairly recent thing.