Why Students Don't Read What is Assigned in Class

[5sElla556]

emm...

[VxJudith769]

briliant

[VlGwendoline620]

nice vid

[deadhardy]

lol these dumb ass kids...

[Smileyyy21]

@deadhardy How are they dumb? Last time I checked they are in school and that's awesome that are reading things they like. Books are awesome.

[deadhardy]

@Smileyyy21

where does it indicate that these kids read outside of school? and being in school doesn't make someone smart...there are plenty of stupid people churned out by america's schools

[onceateacher]

I like based what I like said on other people. I followed like a sheep and did what everyone else is saying. I don't really, like, think. I really, like, think that it's cool to like, do as little as possible. Like. Like one day, the two or three intelligent and motivated people will, like, take over and the little brains will be like, doomed. They'll like, make great, like serfs, except that they'll like, complain alot...like...

[sonztwin]

@proffromgview again. I just read your previous post, where you're making fun of these kids and how they talk. You're even more disgusting a character than I thought. So, let's see, since the classics presumably shaped YOU, presumably, that would be a living testament to not come within a country mile of such books. Pride and Prejudice, indeed...

[sonztwin]

@proffromview (PART 1 OF 3) I shake my head whenever I come across comments like yours, that come from people like you. Did you watch this video? Your arrogant attitude toward books is a big reason our society has suffered "Readicide". Your patent ignorance is astounding: I was an English major as comfortable with Shakespeare as I am with Huxley, but what good are the "qualities" that the classics teach, if the books continue to collect dust!! Kids don't read what they are forced to read?

[proffromgview]

@sonztwin If they don't read, fail them. Face it, the current public school is a total mess, spawned by the politically correct notion that we are all intellectually equal. Fail the quasi-humans who don't read, put them to work at McDonald's--that's all they're good for.

[sonztwin]

(2 of 3)

Can we accept that and move to problem-solving? "WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE BALANCE OUR INTEREST WITH THEIRS?", this video is screaming! Are these paid actors, and the video, one big hoax, or is the solution right here. I quivered with emotions to hear that girl at 3:30 - who had NEVER liked reading - read 5,897 pages in a semester? SURELY, that counts for something! Let them get into the HABIT of reading, let them love reading like this young woman has learned to love reading,

[sonztwin]

(Part 3 of 3)

and the literary world, resplendent in all its "ugly fringes", will take care of itself. I only have one amendment to suggest to Nancie Atwell's exhortation (last slide). "The job of adults who care about KIDS is to move heaven and earth to put that book into a child's hands.." Let's do everything we can to allow every parent, grandparent, teacher, principal, pastor ... anyone who cares about our kids, and their future, to watch this powerful video.

FB, here I come.

[proffromgview]

Stupid classics books. Everyone knows that they should not be forced to read THOSE....Yes, by all means, read Twilight....that will teach you the same qualities as the classics....

And we wonder why our students are morons? Are you kidding me?

[Smileyyy21]

@proffromgview Has it ever occured to you that those books might be assigned by the state to keep kids from liking to read. I get your point on the twilight books but this opens up doors to better books and more ineterest in reading. They will watch the movie and think wow the book is so much better. They will realize that there are more to books than fantasy books more like self learning and knowledge.

[proffromgview]

@Smileyyy21 Seriously? The states assigns certain books IN ORDER to discourage reading? Yet another fine example of the public school system. I can count on one hand the number of students who "prefer the book to the movie" when it comes to ANY works. Those are the students who will be just fine. The vast majority of students are lazy, lumpish, wads of flesh who would do almost anything to escape work and self-discipline. They will LOVE the trash movies but that's it

[proffromgview]

Those students are great candidates for the lower class. We need to stop the crap about how ALL students are either college-worthy or profession-worthy. The idiots on camera are neither. Forget their words and content, look at HOW they communicate: uhhhh, like I like almost like forgot to like, blah, blah, blah....chomps gum....like, like, like let them work at BK or Wendys.

[luckyw4ss4bi]

truly inspiring

[HeinemannVideos]

These students are from high school English classes. The goal of this initiative was to get students to choose texts that they actually wanted to read - instead of using Spark Notes and websites to "fake it" for books assigned by their English teachers.

[MrSchleicherful]

Sounds impressive! What class is this? What did the students do with the books they read?