A Rant

We interrupt this blog for a brief rant.

It's called Summer READING! It's not Summer Avatar-building or Summer Social Media-using. It's Summer READING!

Reading, people. We've seen the studies, year after year, that show that kids and teens need to READ during the summer to maintain the literacy gains they made during the school year and not lose ground for the next year. READING does that. Not watching movies. Not listening to music. Not, to quote Weird Al, "Posting 'Me, too!' like some brain-dead AOLer.'" READING.

So when planning a summer READING program or a summer READING website, it might be nice, for example, to make reading and literacy the focus. Just saying.

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