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1. I wonder about the Advanced Placement English classes-

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Original post)

Thu Dec 21, 2023, 08:33 PM

Dec 2023

Where high school juniors and seniors read "real literature" and write essays about them. These are exactly the sorts of books they read in those classes, and will be tested on.

I wonder how parents are going to like it when their kids don't get the college credit that comes from doing well on the AP exams.

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Read it yourself: All 673 books removed from Orange classrooms [View all] littlemissmartypants Dec 2023 OP

I wonder about the Advanced Placement English classes- viva la Dec 2023 #1

All really good questions! Somehow I doubt that the PTB have thought that far ahead. littlemissmartypants Dec 2023 #3

I've always thought state universities could step forward -- viva la Dec 2023 #5

"The Handmaid's Tale" - too close to home I guess. Jim__ Dec 2023 #2

Next it'll be shutting down multigraincracker Dec 2023 #4

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn????? musette_sf Dec 2023 #6

I read some of those books in high school, and so did my classmates, because RockRaven Dec 2023 #7

Aristophanes? What?? Chellee Dec 2023 #8

"The Clan of the Cave Bear, The Valley of Horses, The Mammoth Hunters (Earth's Children, #1-3)," Jean M. Auel The Wielding Truth Dec 2023 #9

I personally own all of these. What a terrible state of affairs. ❤️ littlemissmartypants Dec 2023 #12

Next on the Florida agenda is banning sex altogether. Chainfire Dec 2023 #10

Some of most popular authors, some of our best contemporary works, and some of sinkingfeeling Dec 2023 #11