November 06, 2009
Ayn Rand, American Classic?

This is from a letter to the editor in The Nation from a Utah woman:

Rand is routinely taught in high school. As a junior, my son suffered through Atlas Shrugged, an experience my daughter will share next year. The same school required permission slips for students to listen to the president’s speech in September.
Routinely taught? Can this be true? Bad enough Alan Greenspan reads this crap, but high school kids?

My questions aren’t rhetorical. If Ayn Rand is in the same pantheon as Mark Twain, Melville and Hawthorne, I want to hear about it. Please let me know in Comments, with particulars, so I can follow up.

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Posted by Jerome Doolittle at November 06, 2009 09:36 AM
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Summer reading:

http://nmiddlesex.mec.edu/HShome/files/SumReading2009.pdf

http://northside.isd.tenet.edu/holmes/summer_reading_09.htm

Posted by: George on November 6, 2009 11:08 AM

Many thanks, George. Where are these two schools, though?

Posted by: Jerry Doolittle on November 6, 2009 11:23 AM

North Middlesex is in Townsend, MA
Northside is in San Antonio

Here's another one:

http://kinnelonpublicschools.org/KHS/academic/summer_reading_lists/assignments/09-KHS-Summer-Read-List.pdf

Kinnelon, NJ

A Google search of "AP literature" "reading list" "ayn rand" yields hundreds of hits.

Posted by: on November 6, 2009 3:58 PM

Crazy. It is obviously crap writing, so taught only for ideological reasons. Then again, wouldn't you love to be teaching this book? It would be so easy to make objectivism look ridiculous with it.

Posted by: DPirate on November 8, 2009 2:50 AM
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