Averwonders - Wow I'm Here

why dont you ask jessica what drowning feels like and maybe youll calm down

-Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

I'm back again with yet another rant about the English course and yes this is about 'Should Wizard Hit Mommy?' and how many of the students think it should be removed because of the misogynistic comments of one of the characters. See I find that chapter really important and interesting because of it's main and direct theme being the questioning/acceptance of parental authority (or any authority in our lives) and child-parent ideological differences. But apart from that there are so many underlying themes in this story like how not everything is just black and white (ie the answer to should wizard hit mommy), Jack's dilemma as a parent, feeling of outcast and being different, how people treat those who are different than the norms etc. As readers it really depends on us on what we interpret and find in these stories and I won't start an analysis here just to save time. It's an open ended story anyways.

Now coming onto Jack, just because he isn't an ideal fictional man and has balantly realistic misogynistic attitude, people demand this chapter to be removed and call it a shitty chapter??? Hello?? What do you want?? Our courses to be filled with fairytales of unrealistically ideal characters without any flaws like children books?? We are 12th graders folks. Jack is as real as any male we encounter in our daily lives and his presence in the chapter does not make the chapter shitty or unworthy of being taught in the class. We as readers are to question characters like him, nobody is saying to idolize the characters and love them all. We have grey characters like him to make us wonder and question things, not to just accept everything being told. Just because the chapters are being taught in the worst way possible doesn't make the chapters unworthy of being taught. Now cue to my last rant why I don't really blame the students for this but our educators. I really like the chapters of our ncert books, they'd have been great if used to their full potential instead of being seen as stories to be read nonchalantly and crammed to get scores. But well...

Ada Limón interviewed by Lauren LeBlanc

i love to learn. unfortunately my brain doesn’t like to remember