My child has to read a book this summer for Honors English. It's about bunnies, which kind of sucks, but she has to read it regardless of the content - it's an assignment.
All she does is FUCKING COMPLAIN about it every day.
I am reading it with her, because I've never read it before, and I thought we could have some solidarity, but every time I ask her to read a bit of the book, she rolls her eyes at me and bitches about having to read a book.
She told me the other day that I don't mind reading, because I get paid to read. Yeah right. There are probably thousands of English teachers out there who don't read the books they assign, or they read those books once and then teach them absent-mindedly for the next 10 years.
I do NOT get paid to read. And I am at a loss as to how a person could think that reading is a punishment.. I get that not all books are ground-breaking, mind-expanding, change-your-life sort of books, but for god's sake ... read anyway.
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