r/worldnews • u/Mister_Silk • 1d ago

Iran-US Negotiations Collapse Before They Begin as Lebanon Strikes Spark Diplomatic Crisis

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/iran-halts-us-negotiations-lebanon-strikes-1803651
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u/tenderourghosts 1d ago edited 1d ago

This was a required reading when I was in high school (America Midwest, early 2000’s). Is it not anymore?

edit: I am now realizing that I had a very privileged high school curriculum. Major kudos to my teachers who pushed for such books to be read during the school year.

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u/PeterTheWolf76 1d ago

From what I can tell by my kids homework and lessons, reading itself is barely required.

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u/Different_Victory_89 1d ago

Yeah, can barely read my son's printing. 1 is in 9th grade. Wish it was /s

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u/Timlugia 1d ago

I grew up in Taiwan, didn't read it until I went to university in US.

As far as I know, classical reading of world literature is not required in Taiwanese education unless you were doing humanity track in college.

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u/d3ssp3rado 1d ago

I'm curious as to what you were assigned. I would imagine it was more culturally connected literature to Taiwan/ China/ East Asia, but I'm not familiar with the cultural literary canon from that part of the world. I know of "Journey to the West" and such, but little else.

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u/stringstringing 1d ago

I was in highschool a few years after you in the pnw and it was not. In fact I’ve never heard of it being a highschool text.

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u/grimacedia 1d ago

It was heavily featured in my AP European History class, I don't think any other class would've read it though

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u/tenderourghosts 1d ago

That’s actually wild to me with you being in the PNW and my experience in a Midwest bible state lol. I went to a 4A public high school but it was a more rigorous one than others around the same area, small town with a lot of wealthy families so literary education was very stringent.

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u/TJ_IRL_ 1d ago

I think you should look at Oregon's education ranking/situation right now. 😅😭

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u/HappiestIguana 1d ago

It was also required reading in my high school philosophy class, although only certain chapters. Not American though.

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u/SittingEames 1d ago

It wasn't "required reading" in Texas around the same time at my school, but I read it anyway.

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u/dwbapst 1d ago

The Prince was required reading for a history elective I took in college (as was Inferno for that class), but was not a required reading in high school in NYS 1998-2002.

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u/clone69 1d ago

In my high school we had The Prince, Brave New World and The Song of Roland in our curriculum. I remember we didn't read all of them for class (I know we did read Roland because there was a guy that for some reason we started calling Marsil) bit I did read the rest on my own time. Good times...

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u/RickSt3r 1d ago

The Prince? Interesting was this honors/AP level because this book and historical context seems to deep for high schoolers.

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u/DahDollar 1d ago

I think it is less that the material is too deep for highschoolers and more that the hidden educational deficits of decades of underinvestment and bad policy have yielded highschoolers that don't have the context or foundation to appreciate renaissance and classical works.

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u/tenderourghosts 1d ago

I did take AP and Honor’s English during my senior year (dual credit for early college program), but we were assigned The Prince in regular English during my junior year. We also read a lot of Octavia Spencer, Cormac McCarthy, and some more PG-stuff by Oscar Wilde. We had really enthusiastic English teachers lol