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		wavemode 12 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in Engl... It's about practicing how to read and write. Skills that you'll benefit from in every form of knowledge work that you'll ever do. I would cut almost every other class from the curriculum before cutting English.

malnourish 11 days ago [–]

It's also about how to reason about and understand what you're consuming, how to analyze sources, how media affects you; my wife is an English teacher and the comments here are often completely missing what's truly going on in a school.

Explains a lot, actually.

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