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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Students who don't grow up reading becomes adults that don't read.  The net result is a population that gets their ideas / news from Instagram, Snapchat, or heaven forbid, Facebook (no one under 30 uses Twitter anymore).

The death of newspapers is a result.  The last Presidential Election demonstrated the dangers unvetted information can cause.  The downward spiral of our democracy is a direct link to people making decisions from the hip without taking the time to read and sort through multiple sources of information.  MCPS is making our children digital zombies by increasing screen time and decreasing the material taught.[/quote]

There's probably way more reading today than there used to be - it's just that people are reading on their electronic devices, rather than in print on paper.[/quote]

Are you really equating reading news articles with reading high quality novels?![/quote]

No, of course not. Reading news articles is reading news articles. Reading novels is reading novels. However, both are reading. And one might with equal justification ask, Are you really equating reading novels with reading news articles?[/quote]

No of course not. My point is that they’re totally different.[/quote]

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