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>From what I remember of my Middle School English class, what drove me up the walls was the teacher being busy by pushing her political views on us students by forcing us to read The Light in the Forest, meanwhile I had an absolute blast reading Stephen Kings The Running Man on my own time. In fact, middle school and high school did more to kill my interest in reading than anything else.
I agree entirely with all of this, and do my best to avoid it. When I'm in control, I don't do that shit at all, but usually I don't get to pick the books.
>And, part of that had to do with how they demanded that we deconstruct every single word in the damn book to have some sort of symbolism instead of allowing to just read the fucking book.
I actually don't think this is inherently a problem, but it can be done very badly, especially when the teacher has an agenda to push. When I was on my internship, I once did this with a grade 7 class using The Plane Scene from The Dark Knight Rises. Make fun of baneposters if you like, but some of the things they say are actually correct.
>No one cared who I was 'til I put on the mask.
>If I pull that off will you die?
The mask is very obviously given the significance of mirroring Batman's mask and alternate identity, and it's a major theme throughout the entire trilogy, and specifically this movie, that Bruce Wayne is trying to create Batman as separate from himself because Batman is more than a man. Bruce Wayne isn't important, there's no reason to care who he is without the mask Or at least Bruce seems to think so, and while his actions have importance, his biggest success is the ripple effects he has into the future by passing the mantle onto Robin at the end of the film, so that Batman will live on and continue to make a difference, maybe forever. And if you pulled off the mask, and revealed that Batman was Bruce Wayne, would the legend of the Batman die? Would Batman lose his power? Again, this question is a major theme through the entire franchise, and especially in the movie this scene is from.
>It would be extremely painful.
>You're a big guy.
>For you.
If you pulled off the mask and thus killed The Batman, it would be extremely painful. But for Bruce Wayne? Well that isn't important. It would be extremely painful for regular people, because The Batman wouldn't be there to protect them anymore. CIA is essentially a cop, and the cops obviously have an uneasy relationship with Batman. They're supposed to be against him, and supposed to be chasing him for the death of Harvey Dent at this point in time. But we know that if they ever actually caught Batman, and thus killed his legend, it would only make things worse for them. It would be extremely painful. For them.
Of course I don't think this sort of analysis can be done as effectively unless you've already watched the whole movie/read the whole book, and stopping at every moment to dissect things without the context of things that happen after is not going to work as well. And the other type off Baneposting, where Bane is a big guy for CIA and in love with him is a great parody of this.
>You're a big guy.
CIA is encouraging Bane that he does have the strength to take his mask off, even though Bane fears that it will be extremely painful. CIA is encouraging Bane to reveal his true self, despite his fears that this will leave him vulnerable. Is that not a fear we all have?
>For you.
Bane admits that CIA is the one that gives him strength and makes him a big guy. Truly they are meant for each other. True love.
>They had us reading Animal Farm, The Odyssey, and Huckleberry Finn in my 10th grade class.
Huckleberry Finn is widely banned even in school libraries, let alone from being assigned reading. Animal Farm is getting close to the point of being banned since it's anti-communist, though right now they just use the excuse of it being "too difficult." "Too difficult" is also the excuse they use for The Odyssey. Granted, this does depend on the specific school to a degree, but it's been pretty similar at several schools I've worked at.
>John Carter
Oh that shit is definitely off the table. Nobody would know enough to stop me from assigning it, but if a single parent complained about those things in particular, which would be likely, I'd get fucking lynched.
>Are you the same instructor who posted that long-ass rant in the GG bread about how pozzed the curricula is, and (Ironically) the most politically incorrect teacher at the school was the fat black lady?
Yes.
>Find stories from pulp magazines and assign those. They're in the public domain and available on several different sites.
Yeah, I did do that. The trick though is that the administration and most other teachers look down upon "pulp fiction," which they define as basically anything that isn't holocaust porn or feminist indoctrination. To use actual pulp stories for very much would get heavy criticism, as they would say I'm not doing my job, and if I argued about how these are legitimate works of art, they would then switch to the exact opposite argument, and say that they're too difficult for students to understand. I'm not just saying this. It's exactly what happens whenever I try to assign anything that boys might like.
Also, surprisingly copyright has not been a problem. Teachers by and large, at least english teachers, have no idea how to use computers, so if I can provide my whole class with pirated books, they don't know enough to care. They're fine with it.
>There's more than enough pre-CCA comics on Internet Archive as well.
Pre-CCA comics are especially off-limits, because the CCA were just a mid-20th century version of SJWs. Outside of a few examples that push the right agenda (and thus they hold up as examples to say that they dislike the CCA, even though they do the same thing), I could never assign those stories. They'd say they're worthless at best and racist/sexist at worst. Because all those comics about fighting the nazis? Only nazis would like those.