This is why I'm eternally grateful that when I was in highschool the indoctrination engine wasn't fully in place yet. The books that we had to read (which I didn't appreciate at the time) were dystopia novels and other classics that, while political,weren't really pushing co-ordinated political agendas.
When I was in highschool we had to read:
- Fahrenheit 451 (in some teacher's classes, mine didn't)
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Brave New World
- The Lord of the Flies
- The Chrysalids (a post-apocalypse novel about a fundamentalist Christian community that practices eugenics to prevent "mutants" because they fear the wrath of God which they believe caused the first apocalypse)
- Anil's Ghost ( a Canadian novel about the Sri Lankan civil war, that was a terrible book)
- Mercy Among the Children ( a Canadian novel and one of my all time favorite books now. A coming of age story of a child who turns away from his father's faith after seeing how badly his father's faith let him down [a lot of bad shit happens to his father] and then ending up doing and going through even worse things for turning his back on it and regretting it by the end)- haven't read this one since high school but I was in tears by the end, the only book I've ever read to do that to me, I think. Highly recommend!
Plus the obligatory Shakespeare:
- Romeo and Juliet
- 12th Night
- Macbeth
- King Lear
And while we did have to analyze all of the books we read from a "feminist" perspective as part of our tests, it was only a small section of the test and it was the kind of thing that all the kids just rolled their eyes at and made up some bullshit answer that made no sense.
I was spared from the full indoctrination by only a few years. Looking back, I can see the seeds of it that were being planted.
This is why I'm eternally grateful that when I was in highschool the indoctrination engine wasn't fully in place yet. The books that we had to read (which I didn't appreciate at the time) were dystopia novels and other classics that, while political,weren't really pushing co-ordinated political agendas.
When I was in highschool we had to read:
- Fahrenheit 451 (in some teacher's classes, mine didn't)
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Brave New World
- The Chrysalids (a post-apocalypse novel about a fundamentalist Christian community that practices eugenics to prevent "mutants" because they fear the wrath of God which they believe caused the first apocalypse)
- Anil's Ghost ( a Canadian novel about the Sri Lankan civil war, that was a terrible book)
- Mercy Among the Children ( a Canadian novel and one of my all time favorite books now. A coming of age story of a child who turns away from his father's faith after seeing how badly his father's faith let him down [a lot of bad shit happens to his father] and then ending up doing and going through even worse things for turning his back on it and regretting it by the end)- haven't read this one since high school but I was in tears by the end, the only book I've ever read to do that to me, I think. Highly recommend!
Plus the obligatory Shakespeare:
- Romeo and Juliet
- 12th Night
- Macbeth
- King Lear
And while we did have to analyze all of the books we read from a "feminist" perspective as part of our tests, it was only a small section of the test and it was the kind of thing that all the kids just rolled their eyes at and made up some bullshit answer that made no sense.
I was spared from the full indoctrination by only a few years. Looking back, I can see the seeds of it that were being planted.
This is why I'm eternally grateful that when I was in highschool the indoctrination engine wasn't fully in place yet. The books that we had to read (which I didn't appreciate at the time) were dystopia novels and other classics that, while political,weren't really pushing co-ordinated political agendas.
When I was in highschool we had to read:
- Fahrenheit 451 (in some teacher's classes, mine didn't)
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Brave New World
- The Chrysalids (a post-apocalypse novel about a fundamentalist Christian community that practices eugenics to prevent "mutants" because they fear the wrath of God which they believe caused the first apocalypse)
- Anil's Ghost ( a Canadian novel about the Sri Lankan civil war, that was a terrible book)
- Mercy Among the Children ( a Canadian novel and one of my all time favorite books now. A coming of age story of a child who turns away from his father's faith after seeing how badly his father's faith let him down [a lot of bad shit happens to his father] and then ending up doing and going through even worse things for turning his back on it and regretting it by the end)- haven't read this one since high school but I was in tears by the end, the only book I've ever read to do that to me, I think. Highly recommend!
Plus the obligatory Shakespeare:
- Romeo and Juliet
- 12th Night
- Macbeth
- King Lear
And while we did have to analyze all of the books we read from a "feminist" perspective as part of our tests, it was only a small section of the test and it was the kind of thing that all the kids just rolled their eyes at and made up some bullshit answer that made no sense.
I was spared from the full indoctrination by only a few years, looking back, I can see the seeds of it that were being planted.
This is why I'm eternally grateful that when I was in highschool the indoctrination engine wasn't fully in place yet. The books that we had to read (which I didn't appreciate at the time) were dystopia novels and other classics that, while political,weren't really pushing co-ordinated political agendas.
When I was in highschool we had to read:
- Fahrenheit 451 (in some teacher's classes, mine didn't)
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Brave New World
- The Chrysalids (a post-apocalypse novel about a fundamentalist Christian community that practices eugenics to prevent "mutants" because they fear the wrath of God which they believe caused the first apocalypse)
- Anil's Ghost ( a Canadian novel about the Sri Lankan civil war, that was a terrible book)
- Mercy Among the Children ( a Canadian novel and one of my all time favorite books now. A coming of age story of a child who turns away from his father's faith after seeing how badly his father's faith let him down [a lot of bad shit happens to his father] and then ending up doing and going through even worse things for turning his back on it and regretting it by the end)
Plus the obligatory Shakespeare:
- Romeo and Juliet
- 12th Night
- Macbeth
- King Lear
And while we did have to analyze all of the books we read from a "feminist" perspective as part of our tests, it was only a small section of the test and it was the kind of thing that all the kids just rolled their eyes at and made up some bullshit answer that made no sense.
I was spared from the full indoctrination by only a few years, looking back, I can see the seeds of it that were being planted.