[Tax-chick]

Some think-tank program like this was put in place at some of our county schools recently. They were *simply shocked* to find that students did more reading when they were allowed to select books they liked that were at their level of reading competence! Who’da thunkit?

The librarian at our local branch and I had a good laugh over it ... although it’s really not funny that it takes a specialist to convince whoever’s in charge that giving students books they can’t read about subjects that don’t interest them is a losing proposition.

[Gabz]

although it’s really not funny that it takes a specialist to convince whoever’s in charge that giving students books .................about subjects that don’t interest them is a losing proposition.

I wish there had been such a specialist around to tell that to some of my HS English teachers :)

[hinckley buzzard]

it’s really not funny that it takes a specialist to convince whoever’s in charge that giving students books they can’t read about subjects that don’t interest them is a losing proposition.

The tragedy is that it takes a specialist to believe it would be a winning proposition.

[dennisw]

Some think-tank program like this was put in place at some of our county schools recently. They were *simply shocked* to find that students did more reading when they were allowed to select books they liked that were at their level of reading competence! Who’da thunkit?

I had an old wicker hamper full of comic books when I was little. That got me off to a good start