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There are better books out there than "Twilight." All that series does is prep young girls to grow up to read books like 50 Shades of Grey.
It was a garbage book and a waste of time reading, there are much better books than anything Rand has written and should be another forgotten writer that no one reads.
The dialogue is atrocious, the characterizations are abominable and the book is 700 pages longer than it needed to be to get across its heavy-handed screeds.
I have a daughter who is a high school student in an Idaho school. Nothing will come of this idiocy because it would mean the schools would have to furnish books. Most of the classes in her school only have enough books for the kids to use at school...not take home. Some classes have no textbooks at all.
The current administration in Idaho cares little about the education of it's children unless they can use the issue for moronic grandstanding.
THis mindset is fairly typical for rural, terminally red areas of the country. "We don't ned no book learnin' here!"
I have a daughter who is a high school student in an Idaho school. Nothing will come of this idiocy because it would mean the schools would have to furnish books. Most of the classes in her school only have enough books for the kids to use at school...not take home. Some classes have no textbooks at all.
The current administration in Idaho cares little about the education of it's children unless they can use the issue for moronic grandstanding.
Not just Idaho. In Texas it's the same. If it's a book being read in class as a class then the set is kept in the class.
And here only AP classes get lists of books to read. None of the other ELA classes have lists. The kids read whatever they want from the library.
The only thing I wonder is if you know this and are trying to obfuscate the issue by playing it off as a joke or if you are really so indoctrinated you don't realize what has happened to this country in the past 20 years.
No we don't have to fear the iron curtain from Mother Russia.
We never really did, no foreign power will take this country down by force.
We will fall from within by apathy and ignorance.
Do I really need to say more? We are coming to indoctrinate you into our Communist world, you better run for your bunker before it's too late.
The dialogue is atrocious, the characterizations are abominable and the book is 700 pages longer than it needed to be to get across its heavy-handed screeds.
I tried to read it back before I knew who she was, long before the the Google existed, and I tried to read her Fountainhead book because I was going into architecture school and someone told me the book was about an architect. Needless to say I lost interest in both books by midway and couldn't pay attention to the poorly written stories and basically got bored with it only to later find out why I got bored with it.
There are much better writers out there than she will ever be and I have no idea why anyone would read her garbage or even remembers who she is.
Not just Idaho. In Texas it's the same. If it's a book being read in class as a class then the set is kept in the class.
And here only AP classes get lists of books to read. None of the other ELA classes have lists. The kids read whatever they want from the library.
This is why my daughter takes most of her classes online. So she can take real AP classes. Her school decided they would turn one of their English classes into an "AP" class. They read 40 pages of Beowulf that the teacher printed off and then got hung up making up and coloring family crests.
I'm beginning to believe that certain states can not be trusted with their children's educations.
It's unreadable. Anyone who claims they read every page calls into question their credibility.
I've read it twice...There I guess that makes me a liar. I don't think ANY books should be mandated by the government and Ayn Rand would agree. I do, however, wish that every high schooler would read it of his or her own volition. They might graduate from college with some semblance of independent thought rather than being brainwashed by socialist professors.
Because not every parent can afford to buy the book when it's read as a class project.
A set of books are kept in the class and read there.
Had nothing to do with "rural terminally red areas".
My son was doing that in middle school over 10 years ago.
They have their own leisure reading with library books.
But these days they do not require that a student buy the book. Those days are gone because it seems too many can't afford it.
In Arizona and most states that I went to school in, the school furnished textbooks that the student returned at the end of the year. It is supposed to be the same here..they just haven't been able to afford to replace lost texts so the kids are no longer assigned books in many classes
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