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AP: Kids reading fewer books in school these days. Nooo! If we had to suffer, they do too! -- (link)

Posted by Barony Bunch (aka BaronWasteland) Sep 24 '24, 13:18

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Oh look, Elizabeth Holmes' favorite (apnews.com)

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What amazed me some 10-15 years ago was not the reading, but the writing. Students don't have to write anymore. They give presentations. -- nm - mara Sep 24, 15:47 1
- Late 60s I was in a progressive college track program, we had work groups so since I was a photographer I just took pix for assignments -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 24, 16:05
Suffer? -- nm - David Sep 24, 13:24 5
- Surely there was some HS reading assignment that still makes your eyes roll. -- nm - Barony Bunch Sep 24, 13:33 4
  - Wan dat aprell who sure as sota The droghte of March hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in switch licour Of which vertu engendred is the -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 24, 13:45
  - The red sun was pasted in the sky life a wafer. - David Sep 24, 13:38 1
    - Howard Roark laughed -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 24, 13:48
  - Fucking Faulkner. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 24, 13:35
Right? Those little shits should be forced to read Island of the Blue Dolphins - just like I was. -- nm - Turd Ferguson Sep 24, 13:20 5
- Though that book, I liked. The Scarlet Letter, however... -- nm - Dano Sep 24, 14:08 3
  - Oh yeah - that one really is the worst. I'd forgotten about it, but definitely. Still didn't like the blue dolphins though. -- nm - Turd Ferguson Sep 24, 14:35 2
    - Scarlet Letter (and Hawthorne) are amazing! - Dark Callisto 🦊 Sep 24, 14:54
    - It's been re-published with notes on the real lone woman of San Nicholas Island. There have been recent finds of her life there. -- nm - Meg Sep 24, 14:44
- But that one page paper discussing all the symbolism within made it all worth it, I'm sure. -- nm - Barony Bunch Sep 24, 13:22

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