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Originally Posted by JSWolf
But school should also not turn you off to reading. So Schools (IMHO) need to make a concerted effort to choose books that are more relevant and use current language.
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I'd agree with this if it didn't frequently end up with books both depressing and boring. Put in a school setting, 'relevant' tends towards the misery of the current or immediate past (or a near future dystopia based on current concerns), and 'current language' ends up being either composed of short lived slang (belonging to the last generation) or sounding dumbed down.
One of my dear daughters is now turned off by the mere terms YA or New York Bestseller.