Almost everyone can enjoy reading, but schools destroy that capability fast.
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Almost everyone can enjoy reading, but schools destroy that capability fast.
With AR points being put on books based on there difficulty, you could only pick books that were at your reading level. The broblem is that they require you to have a certain amount of points by a certain deadline. This encourages kids to read books based off of there AR points rather than if they liked it or not. This is further amplified when they simply won’t let you read any book. As stated before, you can only read books at your level which restricted what book you could read, even if it was your favorite. While I may have had time to pick a book, it wasn’t one I liked. Some schools ,(like mine) also didn’t let you read book that didn’t come from their library.
Despite the subreddit this was posted on, this isn’t that unpopular of an opinion. If you read the comments, which you clearly did, you’ll find that allot of people agree with this statement. This isn’t a few people in there twenties on the beach that didn’t like Shakespeare, this is a large majority of people.
This is no excuse. School shouldn’t ruin something for student for them to learn. While yes you will have to learn something that’s a little boring, it should destroy a love for something that everyone has. This unfortunately is not the case.
While yes I would be very upset if they took away literature, I would be thrilled if they made any change to make reading less of an assignment and more engaging or at the very least make it less of a grind to get done. Even if it isn’t fun, just make it so that people don’t hate when they read.
I never blamed the teachers. I’ve had to read Shakespeare just like every other American. This just means it’s the systems fault if anything. The teachers only get the blame because people can see them and is allot easier to focus on than a broad term like the system that pays the teachers.