Oh wow. Great response to the Atlantic article, by one of the people quoted in the article. I see lots of children and teens reading for joy, including my own. We love to grumble about the kids and their darned cell phones while we adults drown in a sea of disinformation ops.
I saw that "why aren't the youths reading?" Atlantic article re-shared 8 gazillion times in the last week. Here's a response from the English teacher interviewed in the article: "The Atlantic Did Me Dirty." cmsthomas.substack.com/p/the-atlant...
Early this summer I was interviewed by Rose Horowitch, an editor for The Atlantic. She told me that she had heard from a university professor that incoming students were struggling to keep up with the...
Also consider that they may be reading books on their phones. I know I've done that, and for some books that's the only way you can read them because they've been banned from your library