• Tenebris Nox@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    As an ex-English teacher I can assure you that’s the case. It changed in the 2016 reforms (when, among other things grades turned into numbers). It’s the same for To Kill a Mockingbird, another much-taught US text.

    Some schools use Of Mice and Men as class readers in Year 8 and 9.

    • acwern@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Well that’s daft, they’re both perfectly good books. I finished my gcse’s in 2016 so must’ve narrowly missed it