The more plausible thing would be that the teachers themselves don't read anything but YA novels and think TVTropes is deep media analysis, so they assign it themselves. Which we already sort of see in that YA novels are supposedly very didactic now and tuned to the hyper-normie liberal politics of the adults reading it and not the kids it's supposed to be for.
The more plausible thing would be that the teachers themselves don't read anything but YA novels and think TVTropes is deep media analysis, so they assign it themselves. Which we already sort of see in that YA novels are supposedly very didactic now and tuned to the hyper-normie liberal politics of the adults reading it and not the kids it's supposed to be for.