Well, that is so 1960s and probably racist as well.
When I was a pup back in grade 4, even the slackards read a book a week outside class. Average kids read two and some of us (including me), read three or more.
We had a black kid in the class who was in the three or more group. I remember him well, not because he was black, but because he wore a white shirt and tie to class. He told us his parents expected it and, yeah, he had two of them. This was 1964, Topeka, Kansas.
When my daughter was in elementary school in early 1980s she and a black kid named Michael were the best students in their classes. When they got to 7th and 8th grades, Michael's grades went to hell in a handbasket, so my daughter asked him why. He said making good grades in school marked him as "too white" in his neighborhood, so he quit trying. I'm not sure if he even finished high school.