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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

The Veldt, by Ray Bradbury.

They didn't make everyone read it though, just us "gifted/advanced" kids. It was one of several short stories that were in a special program book that I had to read.

I still think those kids were brats.

Edit: just looked it up and this was supposed to be 9th grade English??? We fucking had to read that as 5th graders.

Edit 2: I need to stop thinking about this, they also made us read All Summer in a Day, Flowers for Algernon, and The Tell Tale Heart in that class

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I also took the "fucked up stories for smart kids" class

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

This was the one. Every once in a while my brain just says "hey, remember that fucked up story where the kids had a smart room that became whatever they wanted and it spoiled them to the point they murdered their parents with lions? Wasn't that fucked up? Let's think about how fucked up it was for a while!"

It was 7th grade for me, but still, I can't believe we read that as kids.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Oh I was gonna call out All Summer in a Day cause holy fuck Ray Bradbury has some issues with kids..

I mean he is right too but damn those stories stick with you. And also did that and basically all the ones you pointed out as a "gifted class". Do you think they literally had just 1 syllabus for us weird kids for the whole nation to try and scare us back into line or what? Cause, seems like we all getting traumatized by stories of death and emotional torture at like 11 by the same stories.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I was in the “gifted/advanced” track too. Teachers saw this one of two ways. Half of them got the memo: you got extra interesting stuff to noodle through because we're all under-stimulated in a typical class. The others decided to just double your homework load and call it a day. At least the teachers in the first group had some interesting takes on brain teasers and reading material.

And on that note: I must have thought about Flowers for Algernon every week since I read it. Since the 90's. I'm tired, boss.