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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A little bit of Shakespeare is fine, but not every year. Maybe one play and a sonnet. If kid wants to take an elective on top of that, fine.

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+10000. Every time this is borough up, some English major or Shakespeare lover gets butthurt and acts as if you won’t understand the world without Shakespeare. I love Macbeth personally, but there is no way learning outcomes are being achieved teaching Shakespeare. There’s also much better and approachable writers who are key figures of the canon- Sophocles’s plays for example are really popular with students.

Taking boys interest could also improve the classroom. There’s a big appeal amongst teenage boys to read Salinger, Kafka, and Murikami. My son always hated English class until his senior year when his teacher had them read Jhumpa Lahiri- suddenly he was tearing through books.[/quote]
+1  why do we need to update our math curriculum with the times but not our reading curriculum?   And stop forcing them to read non fiction in English class. They already read non fiction via history books. Most teens find nonfiction super boring and don't want to read. If you make reading a chore and bore, they won't want to do it. So, how is it helping their reading comprehension if they don't want to read things like that.

"Classics" can and should change.

Also, we really need to stop dumbing things down so that certain groups of kids don't feel badly about themselves.

One thing I think the US does well is that it provides for adults to go back to college and get a degree. A lot of kids are just not ready for college at 18. They need to grow up a bit, then go to college. I think it's harder to do that in other countries.[/quote]

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