Does your school have reading time?

[dark_drake]

I was just curious if any other schools were doing this.  Basically, it's another class.  Each student takes turns reading out loud from a book his/her literature circle has chosen to read. 

For twenty minutes a day, I get to waste my time reading books that I have no interest in.

[Ergot]

I was just curious if any other schools were doing this.  Basically, it's another class.  Each student takes turns reading out loud from a book his/her literature circle has chosen to read. 

For twenty minutes a day, I get to waste my time reading books that I have no interest in.

Back in elementary school? Are you with the special kids?

[dark_drake]

Back in elementary school? Are you with the special kids?

This is high school.

and, pleez dont maek fuun uv mee, skewl iz harrd.

What do you think? I do trigonometry, but I'm a special kid? I take the AP Calc exam, but I'm a special kid?  I take the AP Government exam, but I'm a special kid?  No, I'm not with the special kids.

I was just wondering about this because our school's English and critical reading test scores have been going downhill for a few years now, and my school felt that this was the best remedy.  In my curiosity, I thought asking the other people on these forums if their schools had implemented a similar program would be a good idea.  I merely wanted to see if it was a trend in the U.S. or just Wyoming.

[AntiVirus]

Nope...

[Ergot]

I don't see AP English ^_~ You're with the special kids!

[Sidoh]

While my school has followed equally useless trends, no.  I haven't seen this implemented.  There have been a few sections in language arts (my freshman year) where kids would read an assigned sentence to the class, but I'm sure you'll agree that was for alternative reasons.

I'm sorry to hear that.  This is really stupid, especially when you've far transcended anything that is intended for students at that point in their intellectual development.

I don't see AP English ^_~ You're with the special kids!

Probably because the school he goes to doesn't offer AP English.  He goes to school in Wyoming, as I hope you've gathered.

[dark_drake]

I don't see AP English ^_~ You're with the special kids!

It's Concurrent English here, and, sadly, I'm in it.

[Newby]

My middle school does this. Zero Period, or silent reading for 30 minutes.

Towelie was in mine for 7th grade.

[Sidoh]

My middle school does this. Zero Period, or silent reading for 30 minutes.

Towelie was in mine for 7th grade.

No, no.  This is reading out loud.

[d&q]

Haha, my school is a D school and we don't have anything close to that here. It would even be an F school, if we didn't have the magnet program here(IB + Health Academy). I had something similar to that in middle school, our class(Gifted Resource), had to read to other people(mainly SLD Reading and some other classes).

[Blaze]

My elementary school had it for grades lower then 4.

[deadly7]

Poor dark_drake.
My school has terrible MCA (the NCLB test) scores in both reading and math, and we're not forced to do this.  Yay for honor roll!

[Joe]

What do you think? I do trigonometry, but I'm a special kid? I take the AP Calc exam, but I'm a special kid?  I take the AP Government exam, but I'm a special kid?  No, I'm not with the special kids.

I'm automagically exempt from Special Ed by taking two AP programming courses as a sophomore? You seem pretty misinformed, to say the absolute least.

On a side note, thank God no.

[Sidoh]

What do you think? I do trigonometry, but I'm a special kid? I take the AP Calc exam, but I'm a special kid?  I take the AP Government exam, but I'm a special kid?  No, I'm not with the special kids.

I'm automagically exempt from Special Ed by taking two AP programming courses as a sophomore? You seem pretty misinformed, to say the absolute least.

On a side note, thank God no.

AP Programming != AP Calculus.  It's hardly analogous.

[Joe]

There are two AP classes offered to sophomores and I'm taking both, though. I've never seen an LD kid take an AP class, which is what pisses me off - people mix EBD (the angry kids) up with LD (the stupid kids).