Throughout our high school career, students have to take at least one English class a year – usually two.
With these English classes comes the required reading. Reading, by itself, isn’t bad at all. However, the rate at which we’re expected to read is ridiculously fast.
As a personal example, I’ve been expected to read 20 chapters (100 pages total) in the span of one day.
I think these expectations are heavily skewed towards the minority that can read super fast, and not the majority of average speed readers. The number of times at least one person in a discussion group hasn’t finished the required reading is astounding, and I, for one, usually don’t blame them.
Unless students dedicate 2-3 hours of after school time purely to reading, no one is getting that done by the time it’s supposed to. Most students have chores, work, or pets to take care of.
Even if it is a good book, not everyone can read as fast as they expect us to.
