School ruins books for kids. Or, at least, it ruins books for some kids. For instance, I’m sure everyone has noticed that as kids move up through the school, more and more start to despise reading, and I can’t blame them. Schools are supposed to be places where students learn to love reading, places where everyone has a book in their bag that they pull out and read voluntarily. However, the only items I see most students pulling out from their bag voluntarily are their computers and phones.
I’ve tried to explain it to “adults” why English classes at school can ruin reading for students, but nearly all of them are too blinded by the high, shiny test scores to care. It seems that as long as the test scores are high enough, it does not matter what we do at school, which I view as a problem.
English classes force an …show more content…
That point is analyzing, also known as “The Death of the English Student.” Think about it, which is more interesting? A) Reading a book, and then answering questions about it when you are done or B) Reading a book while getting interrupted every three minutes to analyze every last detail in the pages you just read. Except, the kicker with B is, you don’t always understand what you just read because the book was written in 1896. Therefore, you receive an awful grade because you did not know what the line, “she was wholly and unreservedly choleric” meant off the top of your head. It is completely obvious that A would be the most enjoyable. It would be fine if students had more time to complete this, however, because the poor teachers are required to teach to the test and cram everything in, the students are rushed along. Sometimes, they may have five minutes to analyze the plot, setting, themes, tone, point of view, literary devices, and characters of the chapter they just read. If there is anything that will make a person despise looking at a book, that is the surefire way to do
I’ve tried to explain it to “adults” why English classes at school can ruin reading for students, but nearly all of them are too blinded by the high, shiny test scores to care. It seems that as long as the test scores are high enough, it does not matter what we do at school, which I view as a problem.
English classes force an …show more content…
That point is analyzing, also known as “The Death of the English Student.” Think about it, which is more interesting? A) Reading a book, and then answering questions about it when you are done or B) Reading a book while getting interrupted every three minutes to analyze every last detail in the pages you just read. Except, the kicker with B is, you don’t always understand what you just read because the book was written in 1896. Therefore, you receive an awful grade because you did not know what the line, “she was wholly and unreservedly choleric” meant off the top of your head. It is completely obvious that A would be the most enjoyable. It would be fine if students had more time to complete this, however, because the poor teachers are required to teach to the test and cram everything in, the students are rushed along. Sometimes, they may have five minutes to analyze the plot, setting, themes, tone, point of view, literary devices, and characters of the chapter they just read. If there is anything that will make a person despise looking at a book, that is the surefire way to do