Comment by raincole

... Prepare shorter or lighter materials for them to read, as this article suggests? Why has reading whole books become the holy grail of education system?

The said education system expected this:

> As a high school student less than a decade ago, he was assigned many whole books and plays to read, among them, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” “The Crucible” and “Their Eyes Were Watching God.”

Yeah, sounds like a very great way to filter out perhaps 20% of good readers and make sure the rest 80% will hate reading for the rest of their lives.