Do black children's lives matter if nobody writes about them?

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2. I find this interesting

As a retired teacher coming from a school district with a racially diverse group of kids, this was one of my complaints about teaching literature. And when you have a set of State mandates about what pieces of literature have to be taught and when, it leaves very little room for creativity in the classroom. Every English Lit teacher scours the library for something that has Black characters and we all roll our eyes at the same old stories with the same old white characters that kids hate.