Message from @oprahsminge
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To Kill A Mockingbird and The Scarlet Letter were pretty standard, but the curricula have been shifting and it's no longer a given people will read any particular book. Just as it has become standard to use *A People's History* as the standard History textbook, I got a hunch a number of school districts have removed these books from the curricula for more contemporaneous and politically-oriented flair.
50 years ago, everyone was required to read *The Federalist Papers,* Now you can't even find humanities college graduates who have read any of them.
And colleges will discipline people for handing out copies of the constitution.
That said, I don't have any data personally on what is being taught at local primary schools.
I've never read either but I did watch *Easy A* with Emma Stone a couple of years ago
@pratel my school required it. I believe that my son's school he will go to later requires it as well
But I'm trying to move him into the GT courses now in elementary school
So I dunno if it changes anything
"it" being which book?
The two you mentioned
To kill a mockingbird and scarlet letter
Is this a red district/state or blue?
Blue
But we have a red governor. Flips back and forth
Maryland is a bit of a mixture. It's only solidly blue for presidential elections
And maybe senatorial ones
It's not like most blue places
Imo
MD always seemed pretty Blue to me. I went to DMV and felt completely out of place in MD. But I'll bite.
I've just lived here my whole life
Ironically, felt much more in place in PA.
It probably helped I was in western PA.
Yeah
But Philly didn't seem as blue as MD to me.
But it would have also been the DC side of MD too.
Where did you go?
I compared it to VA.
In md
Around DC.
Oh well yeah. That's blue af
When you go pretty much anywhere else it gets pretty red
Montgomery, prince George's counties are really blue. Deep blue
Yeah, I got the impression rich Democrats live in MD. Business happens in DC and Republicans find places in VA.
They live around DC so yeah
Though VA has been trending blue due to DC.
You also have to remember a lot of Republicans aren't exactly wide open about it the way Dems are
You can spot a Dem
It's a bit harder to find the Republican unless they're old and you're assuming it
I think that's actually a problem with Republicans.
I was surprised by how many people love Hogan as governor
It creates a situation where the left is always dominating the conversation.