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RamenDame@lemmy.world 4 days agoThis scene haunts me to this day. The barrens is for me the most unholy place in fictional existence. Shouldn’t have read it as a teenager. Nobody stopped me cause “look she is reading such a huge book.” …
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 4 days ago
When I was 12, my mum told my teacher that I found the books we were reading for class childish. Teacher then gave me IT to read instead. No idea what he was thinking. Being the same age as the characters, the sex scene was the most traumatizing by far.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
“so you little shit think you can handle what adults read, huh?”
BCsven@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Wow. Thankfully my teacher had better sense (or maybe not); when he asked why I wasn’t doing silent reading of our course textbook, I told him I read the whole text the night before or on the weekend. He was pissed at first…and was yelling about it. Not sure why. But next day he must of realized he overreacted and brought in the Battlefield Earth tome for me. It was the thickest book I’d ever seen, and kept me busy. Something like 900 pages maybe. Lol.
Tonava@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Lmao what’s up with teachers getting mad at little kids reading faster than they should?! I have similar experience where the whole class was supposed to read one book together, like a chapter per week at home. At that point I was a major fantasy nerd and could read several books per week, so imagine the agony when the book was actually good! I gave up pretty quickly and just read it, and the teacher was so angry. I didn’t get in any more trouble than that either, though. I guess you’d have to be a really bad teacher to actually punish a kid for reading, even if you get mad at your plans getting ruined
BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Yeah it’s weird. Like you have the lesson plans, just give the kids that are ahead the next section.
Luckily we had a cool music teacher, she saw that I lacked music capabilities so just let me bring a book to read in class. After a while there was two of us reading at a desk while rest of the class played three blind mice for the 100th time LOL.