The biggest struggle is getting kids actually reading. You don’t do that by forcing them to only read books that don’t interest them at all.
If the entire purpose is to encourage kids to read (it’s not…not in 'murica, anyway), but you take away anything they want to read, you’re defeating the purpose.
I can’t believe this is actually something people want to debate! It’s ludicrous. Reading improves a kids cognition and ability to process complex thoughts. That’s the entire purpose of a school library.
How in the fuck did we go from a world where your teacher would tell you to go pick three books from the library to take home and read, to a world where your teacher tells you to not read books you like for some obscure reason?
Getting kids reading IS the entire point. It’s the foudational skill to everything else that comes along with it.
A child who has the presence of mind to make it 10 pages into either of those books is ready to have the important conversations that come with the territory.
Stop catastrophizing. You know as well as I do that isn’t what I’m referring to. I’m talking about putting fantasy books and other “non-educational” books in school libraries.
No one is saying that libraries should have porn and mein kampf. What you’re doing is the classic slippery slope fallacy and no one is dumb enough to fall for it, so shut it.
lol, you can’t get any more le reddit, than misusing a logical fallacy in attempt to look smart.
That isn’t a slippery slope… slippery slope is, “if kids read spicy books, they’ll have unrealistic ideas about sex, and if htey have unrealistic ideas about sex then they’ll all become furries, and if they’re all furries then everyone will be gay and no one will have kids ever again…”
Taking your point and giving an example where it doesn’t hold isn’t a fallacy on my part. It’s a logical inconsistency that you’re demonstrating. That you’re too dumb to understand that isn’t my fault. If I were you, I would just shut it, quit while you’re behind and whatnot.
Slippery slope is “If we let libraries carry un-educational books like fantasy novels, we’ll end up having to let libraries carry porn and mein kampf.”
And that’s the last I’m going to bother responding to idiot trolls.
It’s not sane at all.
The biggest struggle is getting kids actually reading. You don’t do that by forcing them to only read books that don’t interest them at all.
If the entire purpose is to encourage kids to read (it’s not…not in 'murica, anyway), but you take away anything they want to read, you’re defeating the purpose.
I can’t believe this is actually something people want to debate! It’s ludicrous. Reading improves a kids cognition and ability to process complex thoughts. That’s the entire purpose of a school library.
How in the fuck did we go from a world where your teacher would tell you to go pick three books from the library to take home and read, to a world where your teacher tells you to not read books you like for some obscure reason?
Getting kids reading IS the entire point. It’s the foudational skill to everything else that comes along with it.
Kid starts reading “Mein Kampf”, hey at least they’re reading!
Oh, they picked up “The Turner Diaries”, cool, that’s educational! Don’t wanna restrict or redirect at all… that would be bad parenting.
Stopping a child from reading inappropriate content for their age and without context? Practically ruins a child, right?
A child who has the presence of mind to make it 10 pages into either of those books is ready to have the important conversations that come with the territory.
That goes for books in general.
Stop catastrophizing. You know as well as I do that isn’t what I’m referring to. I’m talking about putting fantasy books and other “non-educational” books in school libraries.
No one is saying that libraries should have porn and mein kampf. What you’re doing is the classic slippery slope fallacy and no one is dumb enough to fall for it, so shut it.
lol, you can’t get any more le reddit, than misusing a logical fallacy in attempt to look smart.
That isn’t a slippery slope… slippery slope is, “if kids read spicy books, they’ll have unrealistic ideas about sex, and if htey have unrealistic ideas about sex then they’ll all become furries, and if they’re all furries then everyone will be gay and no one will have kids ever again…”
Taking your point and giving an example where it doesn’t hold isn’t a fallacy on my part. It’s a logical inconsistency that you’re demonstrating. That you’re too dumb to understand that isn’t my fault. If I were you, I would just shut it, quit while you’re behind and whatnot.
Slippery slope is “If we let libraries carry un-educational books like fantasy novels, we’ll end up having to let libraries carry porn and mein kampf.”
And that’s the last I’m going to bother responding to idiot trolls.
literally was never the argument I was making… but okay. So long traveler.