Most young elementary school kids I talk with nowadays don't read books. Not even e-books.
They sit around on phone or ipad surfing the web, playing videogames, texting, streaming shows/movies, etc. You rarely, if ever, hear that they are reading a book.
What has happened?? Do they find reading boring? Are their attention spans so shot that they are unable to read? Are they just lazy and spoiled? Are schools unsuccessful in finding proper literature to develop their students' interest in reading? Is the reading passion in people dying out?
When I was growing up in elementary school, reading was big in most kids around me. You had occasional troublesome students who despised reading but few & far between. Now it seems normal behavior.
They sit around on phone or ipad surfing the web, playing videogames, texting, streaming shows/movies, etc. You rarely, if ever, hear that they are reading a book.
What has happened?? Do they find reading boring? Are their attention spans so shot that they are unable to read? Are they just lazy and spoiled? Are schools unsuccessful in finding proper literature to develop their students' interest in reading? Is the reading passion in people dying out?
When I was growing up in elementary school, reading was big in most kids around me. You had occasional troublesome students who despised reading but few & far between. Now it seems normal behavior.
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