Saturday, July 09, 2011

It has been awhile since I posted this thought

As a parent of readers I greatly appreciate this thought:

Mike suggests that school is trying to innoculate our children against "Reading for Pleasure", since that has been known to stimulate thinking *gasp*Kate Collins


(Does blogger have a feature for repeating a post every so often, like every six months?)  I'd put this thought into such a feature.)

2 comments:

Jean said...

Accelerated Reader would certainly make anyone think that the PS system is trying to make children hate reading...

Henry Cate said...

Yeah, it is sad. Our daughters love to go to the library. When they have spare time they often reach for a book. Yet none of their friends in public schools will read for fun.