Shakespeare Banned

[amado1]

In Hillsborough County, FL, Shakespeare will no longer be taught in entirety, only excerpts, due to the "raunchiness" in his works -- and also because (according to the school district) they're moving away from requiring students to read books in completion. Instead, to expose kids to a greater number of writers, they'll be focusing on excerpts rather than reading entire books.

School board member Jessica Vaughn said:

“Honestly, it feels that much of this is intentional, in order to cause as much chaos in public education as possible, so that the collapse of public education is swift and the agenda of education privatization can move forward with less obstacles."

Comments

[diva_samodiva]

Tbh in my country they started out exactly this way - reading just excerpts, and not entire novels. Supposed to introduce kids to more writers, sure. At least here the result has been a decrease in literacy levels, people not actually knowing the writers, and somehow less writers and less works being read. So I'm just generally critical of most systems which aim at reducing the amount of studying. The more access to free education, the better. Even when I myself complain about having to analyse Shakespeare for school xD

[greghousesgf]

oh for fuck's sakes.