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Anonymous wrote:I noticed my 8th grade DC reading the Hobbit. I asked if they were reading it on their own and to my surprise, they said it was for school. The first book in four years that was not about the struggle of some disadvantaged person.

Wow that must be one bad school you're assigned to. My 8th grader reads a book a month for their MCPS MS.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I noticed my 8th grade DC reading the Hobbit. I asked if they were reading it on their own and to my surprise, they said it was for school. The first book in four years that was not about the struggle of some disadvantaged person.

Wow that must be one bad school you're assigned to. My 8th grader reads a book a month for their MCPS MS.

Anonymous wrote:I noticed my 8th grade DC reading the Hobbit. I asked if they were reading it on their own and to my surprise, they said it was for school. The first book in four years that was not about the struggle of some disadvantaged person.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For years, it seemed that every assigned book my MCPS kid brought home, someone died. It seemed to be the defining quality for what the schools considered literature. It got to be a joke. Every time she had a new book assigned, I’d ask “Who dies in this one?” and she always had an answer. Literature doesn’t have to be so depressing.

Thorin dies in The Hobbit.

Was I the only one who sobbed inconsolably when Sauron fell? All those thousands of years of knowledge and experience gone because some young homeless punk gangster dunedain shives him. Tragedy.