Catcher in the Rye dropped from US school curriculum

[WCGreen]

27. But 70% of my High School reading was Non-Fiction....

In my English Class we read about 35 books ranging from Walden to To Kill A Mockingbird and six of the bards best.

And all the text books in Math, History, Science were all Non-fiction Books.

You stated 70% of all the books would be non-fiction.

If a student is exposed to 100 books in the four years of high school that would still make 30 books of non-fiction.

I'm not taking their side, I just wanted to point that out.

Now most kids don't take four years of English anymore.

I graduated in 1975 and we had English in 10th grade and then you were allowed to take different English orientated classes and Senior English was an elective.

I took it for all four years.

A lot of the people I hung with have never read a fiction book outside of school. They are very functional in the work place. In fact, I can honestly say that of all my friends in High School are doing a lot better in their careers than I am but then again, I don't crave piles of money and define myself by my title. Again, my life took a strange path ten years ago and wiped me out of the game just when I was starting to make real money.

Anyway, I find the situation sad because there is so much you can learn from reading the great works of literature. I make it a point to read at least two classics every year.