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Old 09-01-2020, 07:38 AM   #63
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Originally Posted by MGlitch View Post
No school is forcing students to read in old English. Few are even forcing Middle English, and that’s generally not until the college level (perhaps AP classes).
When I was in high school, there was one class that was optional that read Tolkien. I forget if they read The Hobbit or it was just TLotR.

But the regular English class botched some of the books we had to read. Forcing kids to read books that are that bad or that hard to read can put them off reading. It's the school's fault for the decline in reading. What happens as a kid can carry over to adulthood and that includes not reading books for pleasure.
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