Juniors taking American literature at Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn were tasked with a series of rudimentary assignments based on childhood fables and fairy tales.
These high school kids are getting a ‘bear’ bones education.
For an answer to “What?” in “Goldilocks,” one student answered, “eat bears’ food + slept in beds.” The “Why” was “hungry + tired.”Students at the Midwood school were initially as taken aback as the little bear was over his missing porridge — when they saw the sheer simplicity of the assignments. But they were savvy enough to realize a good thing when they saw one.
“This was just a starter to see what you could do. Just to see if you could do it first and then we were gonna move on to something more challenging,” the student noted.“Besides annotating a lot, we don’t really do what I would describe as 11th-grade work,” he said. “I feel like they’re literally just hindering us,” the student said. “I don’t find my classes to be challenging. I find that most of the work that we do get assigned is actually distracting us from what’s actually important.”
A student at the Midwood high school claimed they were given a summary of “The Scarlet Letter” instead of being asked to read the entire book.Department of Education spokesman Nathaniel Styer didn’t directly respond to questions by The Post. Instead, he posted a lengthy defense on Twitter claiming the lesson will help prepare students for a tougher, similar assignment involving Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter,” which is more age-appropriate for high schoolers.
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