Thread: SATReading scores drop to lowest levels in 40 years
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Old 09-16-2011, 09:15 AM   #17
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Originally Posted by anamardoll View Post
You lost me there. I can't stand the KJV, and I'd kick anyone in the ankles who tried to make me read it.

I think a lot of this thread is panic-bait. Final Fantasy Tactics taught me more about math than most of my middle school textbooks, and I'm pretty sure that reading Dragonlance and the other fluff I had as a kid didn't make me superior academically to my peers, so I'm sad to see YET ANOTHER "Books Good, Shiny Objects Bad" thread.
Agreed, I love the NLT myself.
My family are huge gamers as well as huge readers. My kids have been playing video gadgets since their first Leapsters as age 3. These games are no mindless "pong". Anyone who plays games like Civilizations and Age of Empires is thinking just as hard and with as much intricacy as someone playing Chess.
Our youngest was playing these at 5 and she is scary smart.
Both our kids were also reading by age 4 and are utterly voracious readers.
Shiny objects GOOD, books, GOOD. Balance, GOOD
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