This is so true. I teach middle school in Los Angeles, and 98% of the kids hate reading like most of us hate the dentist. Getting them to even direct their eyes to the book is like trying to get someone squeamish to stare into a bowl of writhing maggots. It’s tragic.
I can understand. Reading is hard. There are so many more immediately rewarding activities, like sex and drug use.
Seriously, though. I’ve read all my life but not consistently, as in one book after another, nor in a timely manner nor at am adult level until I was 18. And more honestly not until I was 20. Which posses me off now that I realize his much stupider I am than I could’ve been.
I can understand. Reading is hard. There are so many more immediately rewarding activities, like sex and drug use.
Seriously, though. I’ve read all my life but not consistently, as in one book after another, nor in a timely manner nor at am adult level until I was 18. And more honestly not until I was 20. Which pisses me off now that I realize his much stupider I am than I could’ve been.