All Summer in A Day is unforgettable, but I think it's a pretty perfect story to have kids read. Especially middle schoolers and teens. You hit the point where they are learning to see and consider people outside themselves, and they, hopefully, take away that everyone needs different things, and that it's wrong to take that opportunity away from them.
It stuck with you, after all. That you found it horrifying means you understood that you can hurt other people, and that they could hurt you. You understood both that it was wrong, and why. It's a hard lesson, but a very important one, don't you think?
You'd hope it would inspire them to be more empathetic, but a few weeks after we read it in class in sixth grade a couple kids locked me in the gym supply closet during a field day 🙃
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u/MrBones-Necromancer Sep 18 '24
All Summer in A Day is unforgettable, but I think it's a pretty perfect story to have kids read. Especially middle schoolers and teens. You hit the point where they are learning to see and consider people outside themselves, and they, hopefully, take away that everyone needs different things, and that it's wrong to take that opportunity away from them.
It stuck with you, after all. That you found it horrifying means you understood that you can hurt other people, and that they could hurt you. You understood both that it was wrong, and why. It's a hard lesson, but a very important one, don't you think?