The Class Canon and Cancel Culture
This is such a tough discussion because it requires us to try and picture the perfect society. What to we keep and what do we get rid of to reach this utopia of ideas and learning. “When you teach works like Woody Allen’s you’re normalizing and romanticizing the culture of abuse he was part of,” I can see this being true only in the scenario that after viewing Woodys work you think mimicking his decisions will be what improves for work to his standard. I think media gives us too much information on peoples lives, and I think if great world leaders acted more like the wizard of oz and kept everything behind a veil we'd see kids that felt more inspired to live out their own stories instead of comparing significant events in their lives they'd compare the work they are creating. Now I don't think acts of violence and the sort should go completely unnoticed but I do think its important that we recognize that casting judgment on situations you know the bare minimum about probably isn't a healthy use of your time, unless that is your line of work I suppose. For books that are getting into my classroom library, I'm going to have to take a leap of faith and let any book that's ever been written into my class. Words don't frighten me, but I do this hoping that other classrooms don't do the same. They can look at my class as a test example of what would happen first. Open the floodgates of knowledge, will we sink or float?
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