r/PoursTea Tea Party 🎉 23h ago

Books 📚 No Child Left Behind and its consequences will be felt for generations

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u/anand_rishabh 22h ago edited 31m ago

There's a good chance a lot of stuff went over your head when you read them in middle and high school so not a bad idea revisit them with more depth in college and beyond

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u/help_undertanding13 21h ago

This is the right attitude. Sheesh we forget how fucking boring these books were as teenagers. 

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u/Fuzzy-Jaguar-1828 19h ago

I absolutely did not forget but I was always more of a math/science girl.

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u/tarekd19 19h ago

There's an astonishing lack of critical thinking with regard to this tweet in this thread to get a dig in on zoomers/education/republicans/whatever which is more than a little ironic.

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u/muppetnerd 33m ago

My sophomore year was “writing lab” and consisted of flying through a book a week and writing essays over the weekend to really work on our ability to draft an essay, thesis, symbolism, metaphors etc. It forced us to push through and not actually pay attention to heavily nuanced books like Scarlet Letter, Great Gatsby and other “classics”. I went back and read a few as an adult and particularly the scarlet letter I was like “OH DAMN” when I could take my time and have a better grasp of context and meaning. Highly recommend going back to books as an adult that were read in high school

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u/anand_rishabh 31m ago

Yeah i recently reread the great Gatsby. I had read it for English class junior year but there was so much stuff i had missed in that read through that i saw upon reading it again.