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Originally Posted by patrickt
If schools taught sex ed the way they teach reading the kids would not want to have sex when they reached puberty.
First, a really ugly partner you don't like is assigned to you. As you get started the teacher and all the other students laugh at you. And, within a week the Sex Ed Specialist assigns you to remedial Sex Ed. You get all the jokes about not being able to masturbate because the instructions are written on your hand.
I have never met a kid staring school who wasn't excited about learning to read. Something ruins that excitement.
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When I was in high school we were assigned Steinbeck's, "The Grapes of Wrath" to read. After about a week or so, we revolted.
Now, this was an "enriched stream" English class. So we were all good students who actually did the assigned reading. Personally, I think I was about half way though the book. So were most of the others. We weren't trying to skip out on anything.
But we all hated it. Just hated it. And we told our teacher. He was cool about it, and the next day he had a stack of "To Kill a Mockingbird" sitting on his desk at the front of the class. We traded in our "Grapes of Wrath" for Harper's book.
Of course, "Mockingbird" is a great book and much more accessible to a bunch of 15 year olds than the Steinbeck book. We all loved it, and we all enjoyed reading it. I can't for the life of me remember any exercises or essays or whatnot that we had to do related to that book, but I do remember the whole story in vivid detail (and that was 30 years ago).
And I'll always remember how he teacher listened to us, and treated us like adults.
Now, *that's* how you get teach an English class.