School reading list

[isitwineoclockyet]

My DD has some English homework to do over the holidays. She's just gone onto the school website to look at it, & the reading has helpfully been divided into "suggested books for boys" and "suggested books for girls"

I jokingly said that if all the "girls" books were about orphans and mermaids & all the "boys" books were about action heroes having heart-stopping adventures then I would email the school. Wouldn't you know it - there IS a book about orphans and a book about mermaids on the girls list (& there are 4 with pink covers. How lovely.)

There's a plot synopsis for each book anyway, so I can't see why it couldn't just be ONE list, from which the children could decide what appealed. Even my DD (she's 12 in the autumn) commented that it was stupid - right before she picked a book off the boys list!

Does anyone else think this is a bit daft, & is it worth a polite email to the school asking them why they did it & whether they might consider not doing it in future?

[Trills]

A polite email is definitely called for here.

If there is a synopsis then there is no need to tell the children that they should read one book and shouldn't read another because it is "for boys" or "for girls".

[isitwineoclockyet]

Thank you,

That's what I thought too.