When we were little, some of our parents read us The Ugly Duckilng. Others read us Harry Potter, the Bible, folk tales, and various moter hen stories. We were captivated by the fascinating images woven for us by fanciful tales and tellings of heros. Reading captivated us and took us to far away landst hat spilled out into the real world, expressed by personality traits, fashion choices, and career paths. Humans were not made to be the same, we were meant to encapture our own individuality and express ourselves in the ways that make us feel satisfied and free. With a standardized reading curriculum our desired fantasy worlds within literature are be blocked off by rules and regulations. Students- whether they be in high school, middle school, elementary, or college- should not be required to conform to a standardized reading curriculum.
The public school system is, as widely criticized, flawed. Students are forced to take standardized tests and are placed in classes where they don 't belong as a way of comparing them to the "better and brighter" pupils. As a part of this comparison process comes a standardized reading curriculum featuring titles such as Romeo and Juliet,
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Perhaps it can be argued that a standardize reading curriculum would give the government a handle on teaching students what they would need to know, such as in "Multicultural Literature and the Children 's Literary Canon" by Kira Isak Pirofski (Source 3) where it argues that students don 't have enough understanding of multicultural literature. But even as this source cites a study in which it was found that children have a "longstanding lack of multicultural literature", it 's likely that many children have read much more diverse stories than they realize. Growing up with my Grandmother I never realized that many of the old mother hen stories she used to read to me- such as "Brother John", "The Ugly Duckling", and "The Boy Who Cried Wolf"- were widely varied in