[Erasmus]

I was stunned in school to learn that there were books that were boring and unreadable, and that the female English teachers were fascinated with them and wanted us all to read them and be graded solely on them.

Sounds like your teacher had a case of Edna St. Vincent Malaise.

[exhaustguy]

I remember my teachers getting on my case for reading Edgar Rice Burroughs, but I recently picked up my old copy of Tarzan of the Apes(trying to get my daughter to read it), and I was pleased to note the vocabulary and word usage. Kids could learn alot from reading the 19th and early 20th century classics. Actually Tarzan gets a pretty high Lexile score (1270). The highest Harry Potter is a 1030.

Call of the Wild is 1170. White Fang is 970. What is the heck are these retold books - why retell a classic.

[BruceDeitrickPrice]

“I was stunned in school...”
One of history’s great comments. Thanks. That’s what my article is about, but I needed more words.