They say they want racial justice and honest conversations about history. Yet, To Kill a Mockingbird keeps getting pulled from the required reading list. Not banned outright (at least, not always). Just moved from required to optional. To most people, that sounds like a compromise. But to those of us who know how bureaucracies work,…
I’ve been listening to To Kill a Mockingbird recently, and it didn’t take long for me to realize something: I see a lot of myself in Scout Finch. Yep, there’s a lot of Scout in me. Not because I had the same childhood or came from the same setting. But because Scout is a rare…
Chapter 2 of To Kill a Mockingbird rips the mask off public schooling, exposing how the system punishes curiosity and rewards blind obedience. Let’s cut the fluff: Chapter 2 of To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the sharpest critiques of institutional schooling ever written, and most people miss it. But if you’re awake enough…