Is The Hate U Give By Avery Ln Andover School Committee For English Class

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6,7,2024 Dear, Andover School Committee In English class we just finished reading The Hate u Give, a book based on a woman of color and all the struggles she experienced and people she knew experienced. This brought my attention to the English curriculum and how little books we get taught about different races and cultures. It's important as students to get the best education we can, to do that we need books that have diverse characters who teach us about these things. Books are reflections of the real world, they help bring attention to things that are happening that are hard to talk about, and they educate people about other cultures. Books reflect the world and by only having books with one race excludes all the

Kids take in everything adults do and when an adult writes a children's book with all white kids and no one else, they feel superior. This is not helping the world because teaching the kids the same way they taught the adults who cause the problems of racism and hate isn't teaching the kids to do anything different. “Children need both mirrors and windows” (Diversity in Kids’s Books). This confirms the need for children to be able to not just see themselves in their books, but also their peers. All these problems of racism and hatred should be brought to kids' attention because they are living in a world where those problems are a part of everyday life for some kids. The messages in books should be meaningful and help to address the problems and teach kids that what's happening is not right. Books should mention these things in such a way that the cause is known, but not in a way that gives kids nightmares or scares them. Books that address issues in the world need to be in the curriculum and be taught in depth so that the future generations don't let it continue to happen and are able to recognize that it's wrong. The books should help to stop racial stereotypes and racial profiling by