This spring I was writing a "book report" aka review for a magazine called Free Inquiry, which is the official organ of the Secular Humanist Society. I had told the editor he should review a book called
The methods I used are would just as well with Little House on the Prairie, Little Women or The Education of Little Tree. Around the same time (mid-April) a couple neighborhood kids came to my door. I gave them each a book (out of my own library), and showed them how to annotate places where something you might use. I told them to bring it back in a couple weeks and I would check it. This is the 2nd week in August and I still haven't seen any book reports.
I also had a couple wide-line journals--I don't like wide lines because I write too much--and gave those to a couple of other kids and told them to bring the journals back every couple weeks and I would check their mechanics. Mechanics, spelling etc. I haven't seen those either.
The time, energy, effort and money needs to be taken out of sports entirely and put into academics, so we are graduating kids who can read and write. Students don't need to be in school. They need to be involved in real educational activities.
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