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a- The reading and study of the classics used to be an important part of our educational system.  There s plenty of material.   English-language writers have written many famous books, and  many works of literature from other languages have been translated into English.  Nowadays though, much  of the market share of the classics has been taken over by the Young Adult Fiction genre, targeted to adolescents.  As Wikipedia describes it, The subject matter and genres of YA correlate with the age and experience of the protagonist. The genres available in YA are expansive and include most of those found in adult fiction. Common themes related to YA include friendship, first love, relationships, and identity. Stories that focus on the specific challenges of youth are sometimes referred to as problem novels or coming-of-age novels.

Educators and Agitators Fight the Foibles of Classic Literature, Push for a Pulling of the Problematic

That would be, the kind of reads at odds with the presently-promoted morality. As we chop away at messaging, lessons become simpler. Eventually gone, it seems, will be complex stories with a speckling of the good and bad. Better, it appears, is the singular presentation of that which is wholly and only right. Hence, the rise of #DisruptTexts. Journal, the hashtag represents “critical-theory ideologues, schoolteachers and Twitter agitators” who are “purging and propagandizing against classic texts…” Reportedly, the premise is that kids should only have to read stories in the modern vernacular. Furthermore, according to young-adult novelist Padma Venkatraman in the School Library Journal, in deep need of 86’ing is any material “in which racism, sexism, ableism, anti-Semitism, and other forms of hate are the norm.”