I Am Too Absolutely Small For School

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Published by Orchard Books.

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978-1-84616-885-7
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Charlie's little sister Lola is nearly big enough to go to school - but Lola is not so sure. She thinks it probably would be useful to read and write and count, but she doesn't really have time for school - she's much too busy doing extremely important things at home. And her invisible friend, Soren Lorensen, is slightly nervous about going to school on his own.

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reviewed I Am Too Absolutely Small For School by Lauren Child

As a School Abolitionist... Hard pass.

1 star

I knew there would be a lot of pro-school messaging in this book, but it is... excessive? It's also plainly wrong and really does provide a space for children to grow into adults who think that school is necessary for someone to learn to read, write, or do maths. It makes a lot of the same arguments for why children should go to school that people continue making even today, without even considering how these things can be done elsewhere or that they should.

So it's probably good for pro-school people, but it's definitely not good for anyone who sees schools as a tool to assimilate people into the "correct" existence.