A few years ago I was at the house of a friend’s daughter, I noticed her get-high school son had a Hardy Boys book. I asked about it, and it turns out he was doing a book report on it for his English class, apparently with the teacher’s blessing.
If I had tried that when I was in high school, I would have gotten an “F”.
The level of poor education foisted on American children is a crime
High school? Hardy Boys? Oh dear...