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The two things that actually haven't changed:
Kids not reading for fun .... that was a nerd thing, and nerds got themselves beat up, and you got it twice as hard if those books were about dinosaurs or other extinct fauna.
Being convinced that the world was going to end. Yeah, Cold War Kids from the Reagan era say hi.
I read for fun :(
Ahhh no, take my lunch money.
But you're also not a kid.
I read for fun, too, and have done so since I was a kid. How do you think I know about the beatings?
This is why we need streaming...separating secondary school children based on ability, so that brighter children, surrounded by other brighter children, aren't bullied out of habits that they'd develop naturally in the right environment.
Equality in education is beyond retarded.
Ontario used to have that system, when I was in high school; the choice was totally up to the student which level of challenge they wanted - Basic, (Regular - had a name, but I can't remember it) and Advanced. Some courses were only one or the other, but those were usually the optional courses you could take for your credits (Typing was a Basic business credit, and World Religions was an Advanced history credit). If a kid had trouble at one difficulty level, the teachers and counsellor might take him aside and suggest they drop down to Basic, but they couldn't force him to do so. Similarly, though, if someone seemed to be breezing through an easy course, they'd similarly suggest switching up to a higher difficulty.
No one shamed anyone for anything they chose, because everyone took a mix of difficulties; it was actually a good way to question yourself. But I guess we can't have that in the modern age. They got rid of this system about a year after I left. This was the 1980s, mind. I thought I heard them talking about bringing it back, though.
Meanwhile, I see this YouTube thing screeching about the "horror" of an old experiment where researcher parents tried raising a chimp alongside their own son to see if the chimp would adopt human behaviours from being exposed to and playing with the boy; turns out the boy started taking on chimp-like behaviours. (Probably because being human sucks so much.) Now that alone should tell people why you don't mix normal kids in with retards - you just get a whole pack of kids who act like retards.
Humans are like one big crab bucket. They like to jeer at and drag down those they see as their "betters", while at the same time stomping the fuck out of those they see as their "lessers" so that they never have a chance to shine in their own way.
Why would they read for fun?
I've looked over some modern lit. The lit ain't "lit", to use their vernacular. I imagine only those whose parents were avid readers, and still have the old unaltered texts, would ever even have a chance of going into reading.
I used to read all the time as a kid, the library was where I usually was at lunch and stuff. Bullies are too stupid to realize people go to the library. Lmao.
Lol my brothers were the only ones capable of beating me up for reading and that's because they're both a good bit older than me