Should they or shouldn't they?

Before we start, for all of you thinking "what is street lit" I am going to tell you. Street literature are novels whose themes, plot, setting surround urban life. The books you see being sold down 125th Street in Harlem, those are all considered street literature. I have been doing a lot of research on street fiction and there has been some thought as to whether or not street fiction novels should be incorporated in English classes. Now if any of you have actually read a street novel then you would know the kind of things that goes on in those novels. In some of them there is explicit sex and violence but some of them are tamer and can offer some life lessons to young teens living in urban communities. So my purpose for this blog is to explore the pros and cons of street lit being incorporated into classrooms. I personally think that they can actually do a lot of good by opening up the minds of teenagers who live in urban neighborboods and also by swaying them away from the "fast life is the easiest life" type of mentality. I definitely know a lot of boys and girls my age that definitely could of benefitted from reading street novels. So stay tuned...this is Cristy on Street lit.<---lol i had to say dat