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[quote=Anonymous]I'm a humanities professor and we keep having faculty and departmental meeting where we discuss the fact that our undergraduates are not doing the assigned reading. We have been strongly encouraged to decrease books to chapters, short academic papers, and films/videos. Even with the films, we are encouraged to screen them in class, otherwise the kids (freshman to seniors) won't watch them. My daughters are both in a small independent high school that does assign a lot of reading. Both of my kids are bookworms who enjoy reading, so they don't mind but they don't tell their classmates that they have read because it makes them unpopular. Many of their classmates just use SparkNotes or get their parents/family members to read or listen to audio books even on major reading assignments for book reports, presentations, and research papers. We thought that a private school where many of the parents are doctors, lawyers, teachers at the school, professors, and business owners would foster a commitment and enjoyment of doing the assigned reading but that has not been out experience. Luckily, our kids are getting the education that they're putting the work in for. [/quote]

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