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Re:Ask HN: Concepts that clicked only years after you first ... by satvikpendem on Monday January 02, 2023 @03:34PM (#34223279)
> Perhaps the solution is to not force specific books on anyone. If kids want to read Twilight for class, let them. Maybe it’s more important (and effective) to have them read anything and enjoy it than cramming “high literature” down their throats.

We had two separate classes in school, one for English, and one just called "reading". In it, we could read whatever we wanted, as long as we read for the entire period. Sometimes we'd discuss our books. It was great.

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Re:Ask HN: Concepts that clicked only years after you first ... by 16Sinker on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @01:04PM (#34235165)
I would actually really have enjoyed "reading" class. Free periods where we got to read whatever were always the best in middle school, wish those continued. I'd just read whatever if I could anyway - and hell, sometimes that was the classics after all.
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