Not a short story but I recall we read Call of the Wild in school. Some nice animal cruelty for kids to think about.
Either I have a higher tolerance than most or my English teachers were pansies.
Though we did read the play version of The Diary of Anne Frank when I was in 8th grade.
Wait...you read the play version of a book? The fuck?
I don't know that I've ever read the Diary in it's entirety, but I've heard that there are some rather explicit parts, especially pertaining to Anne's puberty, so maybe they did it to avoid that.
Those parts were not released by Anne's father, they aren't in any official edition.
Oh id forgotten they did that. We had to read the play of Of Mice and Men. It is not a book that is improved by being a play.
I don't really remember any of the short stories assigned in English specifically, but I do remember one in my middle school textbook that I only remember because of the artwork. It was done by Stephen Gammel; the same dude that did the original artwork for Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. It's especially memorable because the story was just about some cute anthropomorphic animals working on a farm or something, but it had the same crazy "spider webs dripping with blood" style from the Scary Stories books.
I hella wish I could remember the name of the story, or at least the specific textbook it was in.
Grew up with animals of farthing wood before school, your stories have no power here.
This is not limited to short stories and English. If I had not been an avid reader when entering my teen years, the selection of books thrown at me in school would have turned me into a passionate hater of books.
Flashbacks to when only the teacher and I understood A Modest Proposal and not being able to explain to anyone else in that class that i was appreciating that he was sassing the english NOT the actual idea of eating babies. 🙃
Y'all are taking about the girl with the green ribbon, my first year college lit teacher had us read a short story where a kid fist-fucked his mom and I'm feeling like maybe my education was problematic.
Terrible!
Tell me the title so I can shun it!
Oddly enough, Google is not turning up the story but it's coming back with a lot of results
for me it was the cold equations by Tom Godwin
All of it was a largely unmemorable slog with one teacher being adamant that their interpretation was the only correct one every time, even after they chose a book with a living author and I got it in writing that what the teacher thought was not the author's intent. I actually made use of the business letter lesson from an earlier year...
Except one class was good and did stick with me. As a result Atwood still has me bugged out over chickie knobs and pigoons, especially now that we pretty much have both. And depression over alex the parrot.
A good thing imo
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