The Florida Virtual Curriculum, which my school is using, has replaced actual fairytales with godawful milquetoast versions that it’s nonetheless saying are fairytales and I am SCREAMING. Come with me on a journey. Here is what they have done to Hansel and Gretel: a thread.
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I AM GOING TO FIND WHOEVER WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS ATROCITY AND SMACK THEM UPSIDE THE HEAD WITH A FISH
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IT WOULD BE ONE THING TO SANITISE A FAIRYTALE BUT KEEP IT A FAIRYTALE, BUT THESE NEW VERSIONS *ARE NOT FAIRYTALES* AND THEY DON’T MAKE NARRATIVE SENSE. YOU CANNOT TEACH KIDS BASIC LITERARY ANALYSIS USING STORIES THIS BAD!
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@catvalente,@seananmcguire and@UrsulaV, please join me in SCREAMING INTO THE VOID at this crime against fairytales.Show this thread
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Bizarre. It's like they're trying to adapt the fairy tale into a more realistic warning about child predators, but did it so euphemistically that it ended up weirder than the actual fairy tale.
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Errr... I don't see what the so-called moral of the story has to do with what was actually written. She invited kids in. She gave them food. At most, she might have asked them to bake for her. And she let them go. The moral, I guess, would be "Pay for what you take"?
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"Take all the treats you can get from old ladies and base your escape plans on their total gullibility" is what I get, was that an option?
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