So there's an AP English offering at Muskego High. Good!! Shakespeare, Dryden, Eliot, Forster, Donne, Frost, Dickinson, Twain, Faulkner.....like that, no?
No.
...The reading list for a Muskego High School English class has become a national talking point after district leaders said staff had to reconsider their selection of a book that delves into the U.S. incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.
District leaders have denied interview requests and issued a vague statement about why the book, “When the Emperor Was Divine” by Julie Otsuka, isn't moving forward as part of the Accelerated English curriculum. ...
We agree that a book about Franklin Delano Roosevelt's (D) internal prison camps (let's not forget his camp for Italians!!) is a valuable bit of education. In fact, that experience is being repeated now, with the imprisonment of Americans over a trespassing offense or the crime of "disagreeing with Nancy and Joe."
But that's HISTORY, not English.
This is clearly a well-meant but horribly misplaced item. Some history teacher over there should step up and make it part of the history curric.
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