English teachers in Hillsborough County, Florida are preparing lessons for the new school year with only excerpts from William Shakespeare’s works.
Students will be assigned pages from the classics, which might include “Macbeth,” “Hamlet” and the time-honored teen favorite, “Romeo and Juliet.” But if they want to read them in their entirety, they will likely have to do it on their own time.
School district officials said they redesigned their instructional guides for teachers because of revised state teaching standards and a new set of state exams that cover a vast array of books and writing styles.
“It was also in consideration of the law,” said school district spokeswoman Tanya Arja, referring to the newly expanded Parental Rights in Education Act. The measure, promoted and signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, tells schools to steer clear of content and class discussion that is sexual in nature unless it is […]
Governmental officials attempting to restrict literature for school students has a long standing tradition going back many decades here in the United State. It should hearten us that these efforts inevitably fail, sometimes quickly, other times less so. Given human nature highlighting the “raunchiness in Shakespeare”, may paradoxically motivate students to seek out the “naughty bits”, and thereby further their own education.
What they need is a student’s rights group to fight against this rediculus action of discrimination against one of the most famous writers of all time!