I’m shocked

I am taking a Children’s Literature course online and each week we are required to respond to each of the prompts posted by the teacher.  This week’s prompts surrounded older works and one topic in particular “Issues with books of the past” resulted in some answers that shocked and angered me to the point where I had a desire to vent about them.  I am simply amazed that such ideas can still be prevalent today, but apparently they are.

“Racism is something I agrre (sic) to that kids should be taught at an early age.  Mildly but tauhgt (sic) that everyone is not the same…” – Kelly Keagle.

“I do not think that children should have to be monitored when reading these books.  While i (sic) believe that slavery and abuse of women is wrong, i (sic) also believe that women being equal to man (sic) is wrong.  Our society today wants women to have the same roles as men and to be able ton (sic) do everything a man can do.  I do not believe that God made us to all be the same, he made women to be the weaker  vessel for a reason.  I think that in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s time, the way that they acted and treated each other was much better than our society today.” – Brianna Sumey

A number of other responses were posted in a similar manner, but these two were the worst of posts available.  Whether or not the remaining ten members of my class share this rather shocking view of the world, I am not sure.

The names of the posters were modified to hide their identities.  If they can post this in a class with their full name, I see no problem in myself doing it too.