Comics in Schools

Should people be using comic books as a part of their classroom cirriculum? Yes, they should be allowed to if they want to.

I don't read a lot of comics, mainly because that's not my type of reading. I mostly read online comics like Cyanide and Happiness. C&H wouldn't be appropriate for a school setting so we need to find things that are "socially acceptable" for teaching.

Comics should be taught in high school. You can't just not teach something just because people may find it controversial. Take Darwin's Theory of Evolution for example. When it was first being taught, people were protesting against it in the 1920's. Today it is one of the most commonly taught cirriculum in biology classes today.

the same can be said about comic books. In the 50's and 60's, there was backlash against comics. People wer esaying that comics were leading teenagers astray and was the fault for why teenagers were acting out. Today, comics are a huge industry. Comics, just like any other form of art or literature should be allowed to be taught in schools just because it is something, like math or English, that people should be exposed to. If you're never exposed to something, you will never know how you will react to it.

To be honest, comics are much more fun to read than giant blocks of text. Some students are more visual learners and will be able to understand a comic better than they could a book like Gone with the Wind. Maybe if they made Gone with the Wind a comic book, more people would be willing to read it.