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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe they'd have the stamina to read books if they had actually been assigned them throughout their schooling and held accountable for demonstrating mastery of the content.

It's a chicken-egg situation.[/quote]

I can agree with that but would add that we would also have to reinstate academic consequences at the earlier grade levels.  Assigning appropriate novels for middle schoolers is great but when you auto promote them even if they don't crack open the book completely negates any benefit you are trying to achieve.[/quote]

Auto promote is probably fine for on level.  But honors should be for the kids that actually read the books.  My kids did read all the books, definitely.  Often the first day or days the books was assigned — not one chapter per week like they were assigned (who reads like that?!).  Because the books are so easy, they are often ones they read in ES though.[/quote]

No, because the books now are mostly political activism books for older students with low literacy, not classic kids' books

Your ES kids didn't read  
the modern school canon of novels about about police brutality and high school sex in ES. These aren't best sellers for kids outside of school. [/quote]

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