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Report finds ‘shocking and dispiriting’ fall in children reading for pleasure
(www.theguardian.com)
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Perhaps if children in many US schools were not forced to read to a pre set quota they night enjoy it. Being mandated to do something you may not already enjoy rarely results in future enjoyment of that activity.
Also having teachers that understand the value of literature besides traditional early American/European authors. Those authors are boring (for me) for the most part. If your school district forces that particular genre, let the kids read Frankenstein or other early sci-fi and horror. For the love of all that is enjoyable, don't force Hawthorne on anyone. Especially when they are, as a purely hypothetical, falling asleep while reading the book in class.
lmao, the article is about the UK
if you would like to criticize American education anyway, perhaps we could find a nice article about that subject together
*edit: here you are
**edit 2, i still don't want to talk about your teacher @Vodulas@beehaw.org 😜
That's fair. I will say, it is also true in the US, and seems to be going down faster here. This is from 2021, but still
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/11/12/among-many-u-s-children-reading-for-fun-has-become-less-common-federal-data-shows/
I think you are mistaking criticism for district mandated curricula for criticism of teachers. If anything, my comment was more critical of teachers, but also that was about teachers when I was in high school