I remember being in middle school, reading novels in class (I was not a perfect student) & the teachers being absolutely unwilling to tell a student(?!) to stop reading(?!) which I took advantage of. I also remember being bullied at lunch by kids who couldn't believe I'd rather read than socialize.

I definitely remember people complaining about having to read around that age and it being so incomprehensible to me, especially because we had such leeway in what we read.