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Originally Posted by issybird
Is calculus relevant to the lives of the students? Physics? Medieval history? Geometry? I’m old school, but anyone who thinks kids are in school for enjoyment has missed the point, IMO.
I blame parents for the decline in reading. If kids read with their parents when they were little, and saw their parents reading for pleasure as they got older, it wouldn’t be an issue.
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Perhaps just a little hyperbole there?
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I'm still going to blame school. I've been there, done that and I can easily see how the curriculum can turn kids off to reading. I'm very much against Shakespeare in the classroom. I'm also against books like Chaucer. There were some books I liked when I was in school. But the ones I didn't like I really didn't like. Old English is useless (IMHO) to kids today.
Physics, Medieval history, and Geometry are not going to take something away from the kids. English class may take away reading for enjoyment.