Reply #342: Perhaps you're very young

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RHBOM club was entirely through the mail. It started with pamphlet that advertised the latest and greatest, such as Judith Krantz or Stephen King, and the subscriber checked off which book they wanted that month. No great works of literature were part of the deal, unless they happened to be published very recently.

I never said that a teacher never suggested a book in my entire school year...just in HS, I wasn't expected nor challenged to read the same books as my peers in other school systems. I would loved it if a teacher suggested books relevant to the topic they were teaching beyond the standard textbook, and I'm sure my parents would have supported it as well. And I would expect that teachers should be the first ones to impart such information.

What I'm seeing here proves my point actually, educators who are too fricking lazy to do their jobs. I'm seeing too much "blame the parents" because they're not education experts. As I said upthread, I optimistically hoped the poor system I was in was very much the minority, but maybe that was unrealistic on my part.

As an adult, I've come across teachers that made me cringe when thinking they spent 6+ hours a day with children. One in particular hated her job and was a blatant racist although she taught in an inner city school that was comprised of 70% blacks. But again I always hoped she was the exception and not the rule.

I'm done with this discussion, the pile-on, frankly is depressing, as it proves that what I went through in HS was not uncommon. Sad, really.