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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One data point:

My child in Honors 9th grade English at Langley is reading an abridged version of the Odyssey.  It’s about 1/3 the length of the original book and the language is simplified.

I read the full book when I was in 9th grade in FCPS and her older cousin also read the full book about 10 years ago in another FCPS high school.  [/quote]

I've heard the reason that middle school classes read excerpts now instead of novels, analyze short passages instead of long ones, is that kids today just don't have the reading ability and stamina that previous children did.  When I think of the doorstoppers that I read in grade school and middle school, compared to the books that my bookworm DC reads, I can see that kids today simply cannot read as well as kids used to.  The best readers today, compared to the best readers of the past.  How do the middling readers compare?[/quote]

When the DogMan theory of literacy goes wrong. Who needs books, we have laptops for all kids, let technology be the great equalizer now they all can hunt and peck to their hearts content, and work on mind numbing worksheets where they can practice their reading comp skills with one paragraph passages. Laptops and ST math and Lexia for all.

They said “the classics are passé grandma right along with your abacus”. And now Johnny can’t read or count back change, and the ST math penguin has made him manic, and they are about to take away the TikTok. What ever will become of functionality illiterate Johnny and his 3 minute attention span. Will he be able to emoji his way out of the mess?

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