Do you get the reading list ahead of time?

I don't, but my kids are all elementary age, and I haven't objected to anything they've seen or had read to them, at school. I suspect we do get a list, in middle school, but am not positive.

For me, reading is different than film. It can be more potent in some ways, because the imagination is unlimited, yet I'd be slower to object to a book than I would to a film.

Always better to keep the parents informed on what's going on in the classroom all the way around.

For sure.

It's funny, I have no childhood memory of having any interactions with my parents around school, other than parent-teacher meetings. I know that can't be right.

Jesse, I read your question as expressing interest, not snot.

Phew, thanks.

Cool:

The title Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Antidisestablishmentarianism has a 41.4% chance of being a bestselling title!

Like, Signs point to "Rumors of the Death of Irony Have Been Greatly Exaggerated"?

Pretty much, yep. Though that one might not really support a whole book. Ooh, the topic-generator should have pulldown lists where you can say how long it's supposed to be. And also menus to indicate if it's fiction or nonfiction, humors, essays, whatever. Then you hit a button and it gives you some things to actually talk about. E-brainstorm!

I'm fairly certain my parents never had any idea what books I was reading in school or what films I watched. I remember watching Delicatessan and La Haine in French class when I was 14 or so, and I'd guess they were both either 15 or 18 certs in Ireland. But I went to a fairly hippy school.

The title The Bridges of Madison County has a 41.4% chance of being a bestselling title!

The title The DaVinci Code has a 35.9% chance of being a bestselling title!

Hmmmmm.

Also, I'd wouldn't show high school freshmen an R movie without giving notice to parents. I'd have to think hard before showing them a PG-13 movie without notice. But "emotional kidnaping"???????

You can write a book containing all the ways in which you disagree with me.

No I can't! (See what I did there?)

Hurry up and get famous. Then I'll write a tell-all.

I'd argue that the mental illness on the protagonist's part and the attendant anguish that causes him are sufficiently adult subjects that an R rating is called for, far moreso than a few f-bombs dropped in conversations that kids probably hear in real life fairly regularly.

I think teenagers are probably equally familiar with mental illness & unhappiness. But I don't feel strongly about what the rating should be, I'm just betting that the MPAA gave it an R for language, not subject matter.

It's funny, I have no childhood memory of having any interactions with my parents around school, other than parent-teacher meetings. I know that can't be right.

It could be right. There's been a bigger push on keeping parents in the loop over the past 10 years or so because of all the lawsuits.

As a teacher, I prefer to think of it as keeping parents in the know in order to help their children succeed in school.