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So many of the "high school" books would be much, much better read if the message was emblazoned on the cover.

I don't even care if people agree what the book says, I just needed something to look for, because most of them were completely ignorable or outright infuriating.

At least today's kids can have an AI or YouTube video explain what the teacher wants to hear so they can move on to doing something interesting.

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Curricula assign these books to students so they can learn to interpret their meanings without needing it explicitly stated. Of course, the teacher will offer an interpretation after the students have tried their hand at it, but the whole point of the exercise would be defeated by printing the interpretation at the outset. We should not be further offloading critical thinking in service of entertainment value.

The kids already aren’t learning. Putting the intended message on the cover wouldn’t make things worse.

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