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Originally Posted by ekbell
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.
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Books don't have to be depressing or boring. But most using in school are depressing because they are so bad.