Michael Gove bans american classics.

To kill a mockingbird is an amazing book. prat!!

But who will tend the rabbits?

Of Mice and Men was one of the few books I didn't mind when doing English Literature! Hated Lord of the Flies :/.

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Originally Posted by -:Undertaker:-

Children should be taught that their nation is great and they should be taught it's achievements and also it's downfalls. One thing that angers me for example is how many British children are not taught about the Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights and the Acts of Union: all founding pillars of English liberty and how our country was formed and came about. There is room for other stuff of course, but British history and achievements should come first.

Gove is putting an end to the self-hatred dogma of our own country and its culture/history it appears, and well done to him.

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Wait so you're all for government interference in schools when it comes to learning about our 'great' nation? This isn't North Korea.

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Originally Posted by Ardemax

Wait so you're all for government interference in schools when it comes to learning about our 'great' nation? This isn't North Korea.

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If we have state education then ultimately that is the remit of the state what is taught in those schools.

I'd rather the government mandate that our own history be taught mainly, rather than pushing our own history to the side. As for the comparison with North Korea, if you'd read what I said I stated that I would also have our downfalls/shortcomings taught, ie General Dyer in the Raj.

School is not a factory for creating Brits, it's for educating. Keep the Best of British crap to the history classroom, literature is something that should transcend that. hitler anyone?

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Originally Posted by -:Undertaker:-

If we have state education then ultimately that is the remit of the state what is taught in those schools.

I'd rather the government mandate that our own history be taught mainly, rather than pushing our own history to the side. As for the comparison with North Korea, if you'd read what I said I stated that I would also have our downfalls/shortcomings taught, ie General Dyer in the Raj.

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But surely having a purely British agenda in schools would be a terrible thing?

Banning books that have enormous educational value because they don't have British authors is ridiculous. Fair enough teaching British history but don't think it should be limited to that. I hated Irish history but had to endure that at gcse, as and alevel. Would have loved an American history module! Plus how much is it going to cost to get all new resources to schools.

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Originally Posted by Intersocial

Of Mice and Men is a terrible book I hated it so much, but banning it on the basis that it's American is just ridiculous.

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This completely. That just sucks and the book was awful bye.

tbh.............................. of mice and men is too easy anyway and there needs to be more challenging material