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Award-winning writer. Translator. Professor. Musician. Chicano. He/him. Pansexual. Repped by Full Circle Literary (books) & Inclusion Management (film/TV).

Donna, TX
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    David Bowles (hiatus to write GÜERO sequel)  🏳️‍🌈‏ @DavidOBowles 30 Nov 2020

    Nobody with a shitty, reactionary, regressive take on the classics in the classroom today ... ... actually knows a GODDAMN THING about literacy or the point to English instruction in public schools. Hint, dumbasses: it's NOT to churn out English majors. 1/

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      2. David Bowles (hiatus to write GÜERO sequel)  🏳️‍🌈‏ @DavidOBowles 30 Nov 2020

        We teach English to foster reading & writing in young people's lives, to guide them to mastery of skills they really need, to instill in them a love for and ability to use written language that will last them a lifetime. We don't need the old books y'all fools love for that. 2/

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      3. David Bowles (hiatus to write GÜERO sequel)  🏳️‍🌈‏ @DavidOBowles 30 Nov 2020

        In fact, studies have shown repeatedly that forcing kids to read work well outside their zone of proximal development, books that have no relevance to children's lives, actually HAMPERS their literacy. It raises their affective filter, turning them AGAINST reading & writing. 3/

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      4. David Bowles (hiatus to write GÜERO sequel)  🏳️‍🌈‏ @DavidOBowles 30 Nov 2020

        This is especially true for children from communities of color, where different dialects of English or different languages may be the principal means of communicating. Literature that isn't even written in the PRESENT-DAY VERNACULAR / TARGET DIALECT consigns them to failure. 4/

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      5. David Bowles (hiatus to write GÜERO sequel)  🏳️‍🌈‏ @DavidOBowles 30 Nov 2020

        THERE IS NOTHING INHERENTLY IMPORTANT ABOUT YOUR GODDAMN FAVORITE CLASSICS. Have you read THE TALE OF GENJI? JOURNEY TO THE WEST? POPOL VUH? RAMAYANA? NO? Then please shut the fuck up. You know a tiny fucking SLIVER of the world's literature, ignorant assholes. 5/

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      6. David Bowles (hiatus to write GÜERO sequel)  🏳️‍🌈‏ @DavidOBowles 30 Nov 2020

        You disgusting worms, I can read in TWELVE DIFFERENT LANGUAGES. I have a MA in English and a doctorate in Education... ... and EVEN I think that the "classics" are shit for modern kids. You're not on my level, trust me. So take a MOTHERFUCKING SEAT & leave my people alone. 6/

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      7. David Bowles (hiatus to write GÜERO sequel)  🏳️‍🌈‏ @DavidOBowles 30 Nov 2020

        Your supercilious, privileged, frankly RACIST tirades against middle-grade and young-adult literature come from a place of DEEP IGNORANCE about the books that have been written over the past 30 years by writers that could MOP THE FUCKING FLOOR with your out-dated asses. 7/

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      8. David Bowles (hiatus to write GÜERO sequel)  🏳️‍🌈‏ @DavidOBowles 30 Nov 2020

        The teachers you're attacking? Fools, they KNOW PEDAGOGY. They understand that their job is to TEACH KIDS TO READ, deeply and critically, and then to set those kids free in the world to dive into the books THEY choose, not what your simple-minded adherence to custom dictates. 8/

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      9. David Bowles (hiatus to write GÜERO sequel)  🏳️‍🌈‏ @DavidOBowles 30 Nov 2020

        YOU want your own children to read the classics? Buy those books for them. Read them with them, like you do whatever scripture you hold dear. Ain't nobody stopping you, friends. But this pearl-clutching and browbeating? It needs to stop. You look petty, cruel, small. 9/

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      10. David Bowles (hiatus to write GÜERO sequel)  🏳️‍🌈‏ @DavidOBowles 30 Nov 2020

        Especially when you propose we force the canon on children from oppressed, under-represented groups. They need literacy, not to conform to your egregiously backwards notions of literary quality, BUT TO LIBERATE THEMSELVES FROM PEOPLE LIKE YOU!!! Written language is a tool. 10/

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      11. David Bowles (hiatus to write GÜERO sequel)  🏳️‍🌈‏ @DavidOBowles 30 Nov 2020

        A tool we wield to carve our happiness out of the crude stuff of reality. to stave off the darkness of existential despair to fight against those who would snuff out our spark, our essential dignity & humanity to assert our right to EXIST in the face of fools like you. 11/

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      12. David Bowles (hiatus to write GÜERO sequel)  🏳️‍🌈‏ @DavidOBowles 30 Nov 2020

        So curl up with the books you love & let us help young people discover the ones THEY love. They won't be the same titles, I'm afraid. Millions of books exist. We're not sticking to the few dozen you've declared holy writ. Our kids deserve more. They deserve freedom. 12/12

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      13. David Bowles (hiatus to write GÜERO sequel)  🏳️‍🌈‏ @DavidOBowles 30 Nov 2020

        PS. The trolls replying to this thread (especially the tweet with my credentials) with a variation on "shut up, nerd" are not doing their side any good. "Shut up, nerd! We'll keep forcing classics on children." What an absurd string of words. JFC.

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      14. David Bowles (hiatus to write GÜERO sequel)  🏳️‍🌈‏ @DavidOBowles 30 Nov 2020

        PPS. tl;dr version—Literally NO ONE is saying people SHOULD NOT read the classics. We're saying that they shouldn't be forced on modern young people in the classroom. There's no data demonstrating the instructional soundness of that approach, and lots that shows it's harmful.

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      15. David Bowles (hiatus to write GÜERO sequel)  🏳️‍🌈‏ @DavidOBowles 9 Dec 2020

        In the wake of last week's debacle, here's my talk with @jasondhenderson of the Castle Talk podcast: "Professor/Author David Bowles on Rethinking and Replacing the Canon." Much easier to be nuanced in a 45-minute conversation.https://youtu.be/vcmLtlU7mBU 

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