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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a big proponent of reading.  We went to the library weekly as a family.  I picked out some books I thought my kids would like from the classic or recommended lists, and they picked out books themselves.  Typically they would read about 3-10 real books per week (one read basically a book a day, although I don't think his level of consumption was healthy either).

It's all fallen apart in teen years.  They do read, but it's mostly crap.  One of them is reading some online book that has like a thousand chapters.  I can't believe it's any good but he really likes it.  The other one reads fantasy romance crap.  I even tried to pay them over the summer to read something better, but they declined.  Part of it is their level of exhaustion as teens -- they are just beat, pretty much all the time.

I really really wish that MCPS would assign some of hte classics in their HS honors classes.  That might take some of the burden off and they'd see they actually enjoy some of this stuff again.  They are really frustrated with reading kiddie books that they read in ES for their HS classes, but then they shrug it off -- they aren't going to go out and decide to read Pride and Prejudice or Grapes of Wrath on their own. I'm hoping that AP Lit in 12th grade is at least something.  It's especially frustrating because I feel like it's now also difficult to add those college level lit classes in college...plus most kids now don't even have the basis to know if they'd enjoy 19th Century Russian Lit or Renaissance English Literature or Modern American Lit or what.  They need to get the survey stuff in HS to know what they might like to pursue more.

The disaster that is English from grades 6 to 10 is my biggest problem with MCPS.  It's the one thing that I think they really do terribly (in addition to maybe lunch/recess but at least that one doesn't have an easy fix).  The English thing would be pretty easy to fix - it's maddening that they refuse to do it. [/quote]

Younger kids here.  What you describe in middle and high school is my biggest dread about MCPS, ugh.[/quote]

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