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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree - Daughter is in honors 10th grade. 3 books assigned for all of 10th, as shared by the teacher. All are short. 2/3 are ones I read in 9th grade in my low-rated high school 30 years ago. The other is newer but also generally on 9th grade reading lists, rather than 10th.

DD is taking a history course that is at least making her write.

It makes me feel a little better to know this is a nationwide problem. [b]I guess, next, the undergrad professors will shift to more articles as well. Yikes[/b]. [/quote]

This is my concern. High school is watered down now probably because several years ago middle school was. Before that it was the insane Lucy Calkins Units of Study destroying language arts education in elementary school. I assume college will have to be next, because of the attention span issues. Pretty soon only places like St. Johns College will have their students reading huge numbers of books and so much of the best that has been thought or said in the west will be lost (hopefully the east will preserve their own liberal arts traditions).

Meanwhile given the increasing intrusions of ed tech use in elementary school the attention problems will only continue to get worse, as one teacher reports here: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1231052.page#28468960. So the issues will continue to trickle upward.[/quote]

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