re: #234 wheat-dogg

Good teachers can use uncomplimentary portrayals of characters in stories as teaching moments. Huckleberry Finn still catches flak for the Jim character, though Twain in fact was trying to show how two people of different races could still become friends. And the n* word was part of the language back then.

OTOH using the Ingalls books in a classroom in which there were Native American or First Nation students could be problematic.

Like using Huckleberry Finnin a classroom where there were black students? I think one could manage the Indian chapters easily enough (e.g. this was three-year-old Laura’s view of a war in progress, in which she was on the wrong, though winning, side).