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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (159026)	8/25/2013 8:31:25 PM
From: ManyMoose	Respond to of 224749

My solution for this problem would have been to elevate the young reader to another class, perhaps a high school class, and let him compete against people who should be more capable than his classmates. This would encourage the older kids to work harder so as not to get beaten by a nine year old, and it would encourage him to read more and better books. The less capable classmates would then compete against each other without having the outcome decided by a drawing. That's ridiculous. When I was in grade school I would take a book home for lunch to read it, and get another one at the end of the day. We did not have contests, but I loved reading. The first novel I remember reading, I think when I was in the third or fourth grade, was "Tarzan of the Apes" by Edgard Rice Burroughs. I couldn't read it during my lunch hour, but I remember reading it in bed. I started reading Louis L'Amour novels in the seventh grade.