I was taught reading is stupid and I was yelled at when being taught. Therefore I am stupid and don’t read. Adults taught me learning is for losers and everytime just acted like assholes with their ways of teaching. Now I live a wasted life, created by their teachings. They could have just had respect for human life but I guess there’s something bigger than that that they wanted to portray or hold. It was nothing to them. Just another thing for them to make money off. They could have taught for real, but they chose to just have a job and no soul or birth a kid with no drive to raise. Sometimes I wonder if they don’t really know why they teach or why they have kids… Because it seems like they willfully play a part in a sinister game. Even their children weren’t conceived for their own reason. Just had and left to suffer. The greatest truth i know is heartlessness dominates humanity. Nothing but animals.

I know exactly what it was for me. I used to read all the time in elementary and middle school, right up until 7th grade. To encourage kids to read, they implemented a reading requirement from 1st grade and up.

Upon completion of a quiz, every book with a length of ten pages or longer awarded a point per ten pages. Depending on the grade level, Five to twenty points a month were required for a satisfactory mark. Points did not carry over from month to month.

All the avid readers in my class quickly came up against the same issue - we were reading fucking novels like Eragon and Harry Potter, and they were individually good for one month each. After that, we had to start fishing for things to read, and what was once a treat became a chore, simply because we had to do it for a reason other than the enjoyment of the story. I remember getting chewed out for doing a quiz for an Amelia Bedilia book because it was on the list and I couldn’t be assed to read something more challenging to top up my points.