Wow! Where? I wish there were more like him/her!!

My friend teaches 9th grade Honors students and has them read Anthem as an introduction to Rand, but then recommends that they read more once they graduate, especially Atlas Shrugged

My local high school has the students in "Academic" English sophomore year read Anthem as well as Orwell's Animal Farm

she did fivedollar. it was a good process for her to go through. not only reading the book, but sweating the teacher's reaction as well as the students'. so much of the student body was focused on giving back to the community and downplaying privileged. she went to the hoity toitey rich school in town. If anything, those kids tiptoed around the city, at sporting and other events, including going to the mall because of where they went to school. some of that is normal HS stuff, but the over reaction of low profile instead of being proud of their standing in the state-high test scores, number of students to get a graduate degree etc. was kind of mind boggling. to balance this, I will say, schools in affluent neighborhoods were also the first targets for drugs. and that did have an impact. I should say, it is a public school, not private

I hope she got an "A."

All right, I'll look it up. : )

Check out my post on home school. I would like your opinion.

My govt teacher senior year of high school said he thought it should be taught in freshman lit, but we never read it. The most surprising book I had read as an assignment was John Knowles' 'A Separate Peace', in 4th grade. I was a bit of an advanced reader... Eudora Welty was another interesting author..

I have heard that some have, in high school. But not many, only the really rebellious teachers. There have been kids who have told me their teacher told them to read the book. Some are getting it in college too. Doc Thompson from The Blaze radio show told me that's where he first read it, in first year literature. But I think those are exceptions and certainly not the rule. I think Atlas should be read before any kid leaves the 8th grade. The sex is no more spectacular than Romeo and Juliet, and most kids get that in Freshman English.

But these days I'm against public education completely and think we should teach our kids to read Atlas in the third grade so they are acting like John Galt by the time they are in the sixth grade. Then they'd be inventing engines and all kinds of cool stuff by the time they are 18 and 19 years old.

Hahaha. That made my morning. Now I'm off to jump into the 'shake and bake' and get my red card for the season. More for the admin staff.

For the bad spellers and/or administrative-types, The Lord of the Files. =)

No. Neither 1984, Brave New World, The Lord of the Flies, The Jungle. Of course it's been eons since I was in school but I can't remember anything that was assigned so whatever it was must not have been very good. I remember the above books though....and Jules Verne.

It should be required reading. A manual for living on earth

Not in public school. In private school I have heard of it

my daughter did her HS senior project on AS though

no