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UK Scheme aims to get boys reading
Submitted by AngryMan on Wed, 2007-05-16 15:01
Story here. Excerpt:
"Secondary schools in England are being given free books for their library, in an attempt to get teenage boys reading.
The collection includes classic novels such as Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and factual books like Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything. There are also spy and adventure books, as part of efforts to close the "reading gap" between boys and girls.
The scheme - Boys into Books - is principally aimed at boys aged between 11 and 14, because research suggests boys enjoy reading at primary school but lose interest after the age of 11."
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Sounds great
Sounds like a great start to me. I hope the official curriculum also follows suit and tries to have more material that would be of interest... continuing through to age 18.
I know at that age, that was when I lost a lot of interest in literature... actually I thought I did, But really didn't. I was still reading quite a bit, like most boys I knew.
We were reading what we wanted to, not what others thought we should. We'd share, swap and discuss the books. All the stuff that people say boys don't do. It wasn't until much later that I realized that it wasn't me or boys for that matter; it was the education system.
English classes were mandatory and filled with female (usually feminist) teachers with superiority complexes mandated to teach uninteresting literature and who scoffed at anything that didn't romanticize human emotion.
Any wonder why boys "lose interest"...
Exactly, my son who just
Exactly, my son who just turned 16, has always been an avid reader. He use to fail miserably in English classes until he changed to a smaller school with a much more flexable style of teaching.
It amazes me that all these female teachers with fembot ideals for young men, shuving feminist literature down thier throats, that is suppose to make them "Better" men, and they cant figure out why they are getting no responce?
Go figure...
Gee I wonder why
No doubt idiots are saying, that boys "naturally" lose interest in reading after primary school..like it is biology or something. I suspect the reality is a combination of 1) what they are given to read later, like books that tend toward girlie subjects such as fairy stories or love-related, or just plain don't pertain to the boys; and 2) by this point boys are probably losing interest in school anyway - we all know they are getting screwed by the matriarchal and "progressive education" system.
-ax