Just imagine this with the books I had to read in school. Yes, I would have read it, I’m a fast reader, so a bad book does not waste too much time. On the other hand, I would have no problems with grilling the author over the shit he or she wrote. Because basically every book we had to read for school was crap. There are so many good books, books that would spark interest and passion for reading more, but somehow they had selected the worst of the worst back then, aimed at making children reel in horror when they see books and vow never to touch a book again after school.
Huh. I guess my experience was better I remember reading My Side of the Mountain and The Giver, among other things. Usually pretty decent reads though.
Ugh, can relate. I love to read; I used to go through two books per week as a kid during middle school and high school. Not even just fiction, but non-fiction about topics that interested me like space and aviation. I even read books on my Palm Pilot PDA, well before e-readers were a thing.
So as you can imagine, I had an exceptional vocabulary compared to classmates. This had some annoying effects as well. Whenever I did written assignments for a new class with a different teacher, they’d always accuse me of either cheating or plagiarism. Because I was using way more ‘difficult words’ than classmates. A two minute conversation usually cleared it up; they quickly found out that I did in fact do the work and understood the assignment.
I don’t envy teachers today. Reading comprehension has declined sharply, and kids just don’t like to read as much as they did when I was young. Despite the fact that books are now way more accessible to them. I fear it’s going to result in an illiterate generation…
Imagine bullying someone because they read a book.
They should be thankful the school didn’t punish the class for not doing the assignment.
Fuck you, I didn’t even read your comment, you literate poopiehead!
ILLITERACY RULES!
I was home schooled,* and occasionally I wish I had gone to public school, because I missed out on a lot of cultural touchstones, but then I’m reminded that kids are fucking horrible to other kids at any sign of differentness, and I was a fat, nerdy, gay bookworm, so, yeah, I’m good with the way things shook out. Haha
*Got a great education, not a religious nutjob, was not raised by right wing zealots.
Home schooled kids on average are smarter. Public schools tend to lower their standards to get a certain percentage of students to pass.
Plus I bet your teacher was hot.
Considering half the home schooled kids are kept for indoctrination and/or abuse purposes, I doubt it.
Who says they didn’t.
people were muttering nobody read it
That’s not a punshment by the teachers
Anon
Where? :)
I’m sorry anon but they probably were gonna bully you regardless
If this happened at my school people would thank op for making the assembly less awkward
Worth, 1000x over.
Kids suck
I mean it’s literally a story about a kid being good.
A story about a single kid being good while many other kids were shitbags.
But only because of his high regardation.
Good job anon. No good deed goes unpunished.
Sounds like a win
fkn worth it
Middle School sucks ass for everyone who’s not a rich kid.
MiddleSchool sucks ass for everyone who’s not a rich kid.
