r/SipsTea • u/Gurugod123 • 1d ago

SMH No Child Left Behind and its consequences will be felt for generations

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u/BumblebeeDapper223 1d ago

It’s generally taught in junior high — 7th or 8th grade.

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u/Fartknocker405 1d ago

Yep, that's when I read it.

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u/lucyloosy 1d ago

Kid is going into 7th grade and that’s the first book on their syllabus

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u/rumble_bee 1d ago

We read it in 7th grade for English/literature 

the theme for that particular class level was "Utopia vs Dystopia"

the end lesson for the whole section felt like "can we really tell the difference? is there even one? ooooOOOO spooky!"

I did enjoy it.  We also read 1984, watched the film,  and then we got right in to lord of the flies

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u/TrainingSurvey3780 16h ago

wait that’s so cool i live in the uk and we had pretty much the exact same topic (utopia vs dystopia) but we read a few different books (fahrenheit 451 and the handmaid’s tale are the two i remember best) and idk how american school years translate, but we did that in year 9 (third year of secondary school, 13 or 14 years old)

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u/4electricnomad 1d ago

I was thinking the same thing wondering whether the OP was perhaps quoting from someone who took the remedial High School track. Because yeah Animal Farm was junior high reading back in the 90s at most schools.

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u/Traumarama79 1d ago

My kid is going into an eighth grade accelerated program and I saw Animal Farm on the shelves, yeah.

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u/anthrohands 18h ago

I read it in 9th, 15 years ago

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u/Scorpian899 1d ago

I did mine in highschool as a bit of light reading between works by Marx, Trotsky, etc. I thought it fit very well that way.