An official at Shale Meadows Elementary School in Ohio brought a reading of "The Sneetches" by Dr. Seuss to a halt when a third grader mentioned racism.
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The movement to cancel Dr. Seuss didn’t emerge from a vacuum. Two years before Dr. Seuss Enterprises announced it would pull five of the classic children’s author’s books, a study examined the racial makeup of characters in Theodore Seuss Geisel’s books, and found a lack of diversity. Perhaps more chillingly, a leftist education group found fault with the Dr. Seuss story “The Sneetches,” a story that
explicitly condemns racism.
Back in 2019, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) education arm, Teaching Tolerance (now rebranded “Learning for Justice”), condemned “The Sneetches” as insufficiently “anti-racist.” The story condemns racism, sure, but it fails to use Marxist critical race theory to turn children into activists. You see, it’s not enough to oppose racism you have to militate against “systemic racism” and the “white supremacy” latent in American society.
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Learning to read is one of the first opportunities children have to develop their minds, learn about the world, and become happy, well-rounded people.
This skill alone creates the foundation upon which we learn nearly all other knowledge and disciplines.
In light of the breakdown in our school systems – especially large urban systems that fail to educate a high percentage of poorer children – coupled with mass school closures over COVID-19, children need incentives and opportunities to read more than ever.
This is why America needs Dr. Seuss.