I'm pretty appalled by this. As much as I loved reading The Book Thief, for example, this is not a book to introduce the Holocaust to students. It's a very complicated concept to feel sympathy for the Germans while knowing what was going on. I think the analogy to Gone with the Wind is apt. I don't understand why Diary of a Young Girl would no longer be interesting, especially with the understanding that it recounts the real experiences of a girl living through the experience. I think that if students only read one book, it's better to read a real story rather than fiction. Finally, people all over the world read Anne Frank; why shouldn't our students. For example, when I have had Japanese exchange students living with us, they had all read Diary of a Young Girl. I think American students would be missing a piece of a literary canon if they don't read it. X-Original-To: [email protected] X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 X-Spam-Score: 1.30 (*) [Tag at 7.00] MISSING_SUBJECT,SPF(neutral,0) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=71.74.56.123; country=US; region=OH; city=Reynoldsburg; latitude=39.9549; longitude=-82.7693; metrocode=535; areacode=614; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=39.9549,-82.7693&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: lists (inherits from default) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 128.146.216.127 X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN
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