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I have just started reading books again however I do not often find a good book that I will sit down and read for more than an hour.

ninja

Very true...I've noticed that a lot (the thing about parents) My parents are my friends but they know when to be strict. Some parents just don't. They aren't strict enough, letting their kids run around doing whatever they want to.

Half of the parents are too lenient (sp?), so their kids do whatever they want because they can, and get drunk, laid, and high at 12 years old.

Of course, there are some parents that are too strict, and the kids just want to get away and cause problems because they can't.

Other kids are just plain out ignored, their parents not giving a rat's a** about whether they're being good or being bad.

Still, other kids have good parents, but just don't listen. I have to admit, I can be like that sometimes with my parents, but only about things like "Don't leave the house when we're not home" and "No going to the milk box or Rita's" (The milk box is a conveiniece store right outside my neighboorhood. Rita's is right outside my neighboorhood, too. The problem is, I have to croos this busy street that wasn't exactly made for pedestians.) But I never get high, drunk, or laid like other kids. I never go to parties, and I hardly go to the mall with friends, which is unheard of among most fo the kids at my school. First thing they think is that I have no friends. Problem is, my parents don't really want to drive me to the mall, so my friends parents would have to drive me if I wanted to go with them. I guess I'm too consumed by the Internet to really go anywhere, plus I never hear of any parties, really.

I disagree on the whole schooling part being a problem with children's disability to read.

When we think of school, we need to remember there is a syllabus that needs to be completed. Teachers come together to chose the books to be read in their Literature class, not just to have the children read but to help them read a novel and understand it. Some books nowadays don't allow the children to use this skill, for when asked a question, such as in the play Macbeth:

'What was the importance of Duncan and Banquo being used in the play and what are your views on the characters', we are expected to know these things from reading the book, even though the information isn't laid out infront of us.

They may be 'boring' but they're important and if you truly enjoy reading, you could make a book that seems to be a bore more exciting.

I happened to love literature class because for some books that never interested me, I gained an acceptance for them due to my classmates.

Maybe its just my school, I mean I'm in an all girls school here, but all 26 of us loved Macbeth, as well as Crick Crack Monkey which we did last term, and we're also enjoying the Glass Menagerie which we have started this term....

I do believe however that with technology, reading was put off on the side, as a fall back on when there's no electricity or so forth.

Number 1: The only book that I was assigned in English class that I actually finished was To Kill A Mockingbird, too. This was 20 something years ago.
Number 2: The book with the kid who runs to the Catskills is called My side of the Mountain and I read that, too, but it wasn't assigned.
Number 3: You are right, student should have the option of choosing the books they read.

eek mad That teacher should be reported! And fast! It's just so...wrong!

Shoot me in the face...I laughed.