Why Students Don't Read What is Assigned in Class

Do you students actually read what is assigned in class? Dozens of students explain why they don't read what is assigned and how they still pass English and literacy classes by using CliffNotes and the internet.

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Education

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• why students don't read
• literacy
• english
• writing
• choice
• cliff notes
• cheating

[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.

[5sElla556]

emm...

[VxJudith769]

briliant

[VlGwendoline620]

nice vid

[deadhardy]

lol these dumb ass kids...

[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?

[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?