Post #6: Readicide

Is readicide a problem in schools?



Yes I think readicide is a problem in schools because if they are creating more ways for children to hate reading then kids aren’t going to like what they are learning and they feel like the teacher is lecturing them. Also it will create children to not try as hard because they don’t really care as much on what they are learning about. They will only read in the class to get a good score on a test or to memorize for class not for enjoyment. They are forcing books on us that most people wouldn’t really want to read. Let’s be honest if you had an assignment in class and they gave you two books to choose from, you would most likely choose the book that has more interest to you. Not the book that the teacher would want to assign. When choosing the book you have more freedom than being forced to read a certain book. The teachers are creating children to become like test takers not actually readers. As schools have started removing good books from children and replacing them with drill and learning skill worksheets and chopped up reading books by making them take notes on books, they have begun to lose focus on the learning of reading. By trying to make tests, quizzes on them isn’t going to create love for reading. They are only getting a main understanding of the information, but not going into depth. Like in trimester one when I had to analyze the story of Romeo and Juliet. At first I was quiet excited and was somewhat interested in what the story was about. I really wanted just to learn about the story not look at every single line in that story. But when I found out that we had to analyze each section of the book I was done. To be honest I don’t really care what this line means or what the meaning of that line means. I bet there isn’t even a deeper meaning to every line and whatever the author wrote is probably what he meant. Simple as that!