Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-98.218.70.24-20150317164438/@comment-4010415-20150412222125

Man... In middle school, we had Reading class and Language Arts class, but in high school, Reading was shoved into Language Arts, and we never really finished a story we started. And I didn't enjoy Reading class that much anyway, since a lot of the reading was for the damn Accelerated Reading thing that kids have to do in elementary and middle school.

Basically, at the beginning of each school year, you take a test, and this test determines your reading level and sets a point goal for you to meet. You go to the school's library, find books in your reading level, read them, and take quizzes on them to gain points. The higher level a book is, the more points it's worth. Harry Potter was a pretty good series for me, since the books steadily increase in level, and they were coming out as I went up in grades. I always had a reading level about two grades above the grade I was in.

But I didn't like being forced to read, y'know? Unfortunately, I couldn't just not because the AR points countd toward my grade in Reading, and if I didn't get at least a good chunk of points toward my goal, I would fail Reading. Being obligated to read just so I wouldn't fail a class kinda took the fun out of reading.

I dunno if that's a problem with the school system or a problem with me, to be honest. I always was the "I'm not your fucking slave" type. Team Free Will all the way, baby.