Sean Mooney

Oh yeah, I suppose. I was on school class mode. My family was middle class. Lived in a rural area school district that bordered more urban districts so I had friends in those districts and they were reading many of the same novels.

Yes. PA. The school had just a basic micro and macro economics class and in them they would do some stuff related to being able to do real world budgeting, but it wasn't like a major component of the class overall. I took AP Economics in senior year as well.

His poor kids man. Papa loved Mama......and Trisha Yearwood......and apparently this chick.

I like reading so I read all of them. In no particular order and not a comprehensive list: Inherit the Wind, Fahrenheit 451, A Tale of Two Cities, The Great Gatsby, Catcher in the Rye, Of Mice and Men, The Things They Carried, Hamlet, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, 1984, Brave New World, The Crucible, Profiles in Courage, Beowulf, The Odyssey, The Metamorphosis. There are more.

The novels or the ghettos?

I'm not threatening him. Just saying- someone as unbalanced as him has a lot of enemies out there I'm sure. Another one with constant teacher jokes.

That must be very specific to an area. In high school we read multiple full length novels.

Seafoam would have less than a month left to live.

You are the one who is struggling with the truth here dude. Hope you got yourself a good nap to get rid of the crankiness.

I was building off the article some with my gripes but #2 is basically mentioned in the piece- at least the first part. The other pieces are me building my complaints on top of things in the article and trying to explain why there is some decline in the want, and ability, to read. The general idea of the article is that there is a decline in reading of full texts and there are a lot of factors involved in it. For me, I think a huge factor is that we were wrong in the early 2000's to try to swing everyone to college. We have course corrected now but we are course correcting back too far the other way. Reading is a fundamental skill to have in life regardless of if you are going to college or going to be a day laborer. You need to be able to read and comprehend things. But by shrinking what the kids are asked to read (again because that is what is asked of us) we are shrinking their capacity to read and stay attuned to things. For example, if you want to run a 5K you don't train to just be able to run 3.1 miles. You train to run 3.5 or 4 miles because of some natural dropoff. If you just train for 3.1 you will peter out somewhere around like 2.7 and have to slog through the rest. With reading it's the same. Instead of training kids to read on Jane Eyre, we are training them to read on a critical essay about Jane Eyre.

Ruth 3:11 "And so it came to pass that Weepaws took unto him his cousin as his wife, following the ways of their forefathers." Amen Thanks

This is an interesting article from The Atlantic- it's long so fair warning. But it does highlight a couple issues where government oversight of education (at both state and federal levels) have failed kids. 1.) In classroom instruction is encouraged to be differentiated to meet kids at their needs but then they are asked to take a standardized test that does not adapt to their educational needs. So it's a little like training someone to be a roofer by showing them how to fix a car engine. 2.) All the standardized tests are short pieces and nothing in long form novel. So because funding is tied to test results- schools are forced to adapt their instruction to the test meaning lots more short fiction and excerpts as opposed to asking a kid to actually read a novel. 3.) The government oversight of tests has not adapted to 21st century skills so you have an antiquated test being tied to funding which affects school curricular goals. It becomes a self-fulfilling cycle. These are the issues that people should be railing about in schools and trying to get fixed.

"What we've got here is failure to communicate....you piece of sh!t" "E.T. phone home....you piece of sh!t"

I just find it funny that there are all these people floating around under multiple names carrying on arguments. Like I don't remember if I've ever said anything to Brahama Bulls here. I may have and just don't remember it....but he chose to come out guns blazing. And it's just sad/funny for anyone who does it including all the aliases that gutterboy posts under. Like why does this all matter that much? And it's the height of irony when a person comes on here and pretends like they are a life winner and above everyone else and then they are on like their 5th username here so they can keep shitposting people. Nothing about "5th username to post on a fantasy football message board" screams life winner.

And the cycle begins again