There is no more reading lessons in schools now..

Many things have been changed from our conventional methods. Not only in schooling or colleges. If we notice, we can see this change evrywhere. The method of education field got a tremendous changes and teaching techniques, learning methods, topics and everything. My wife is a teacher for small children from age 5-10 (not in school) and I used to prepare teaching guides for them (just to help my wife) and she used to adopt all those methods and this year, they got 3 times more students in her institution only because of the childrens speical abilities. For my guidance, I have included reading in the main stream as reading is very much essential and the pronounceation difference, techniques and many more things to be noted. Even in the higher classes also its a must and now-a-days, no body giving any psychological approach for anything. The authorities are only focused on, how they can divert the children from committing suiside and they even scared to implement the useful but really worthy methods for teaching. The teachers also are much restricted or limited with their time limits, portion coverage, overall development and the upliftment of each and every student is really a tedious job. But managing everything within the limits and if anyone can do it, they can try for it. Because most of the students wont read much and they would just grasp. Any way, if a student to improve, they should read and reading is just worth for many things.

hi kiran, but this is their view only, the article name is "no more classes,no more books and no more teachers and finally "no more education", the author of the above mentioned article missed to write the rest of the words after all this happen, in my view with out teacher,books, nothing will happen, both of these are must for education, have a nice day.

Hi kiran', no doubt reading is a good habit for getting knowledge and making the time full of satisfaction. When I was a student I used to read novels and fictions and sometimes I passed the whole night to finish a book. But I lost the habit. Now at the last part of my life I'm trying to get back the habit of reading. I think it will be better than worship. Or we can say reading is one kind of worship.

I think reading is the main element in learning, We must not neglect reading skills and we better develop them and encourage reading even as a fun activity. The proposal of canceling reading classes is about being more efficient and include some reading focus in every other subject since , there is always the need to read the learning material of each and every subject. So , maybe , reading classic literature is not so necessary but still , the analyzing of a text and making conclusions that help with answering complicated questions is very valuable. In the end , everyone that goes to a high educational institution will need to read a lot of material and if he has problems with that , he will have to take a course of how to read and understand texts. He will have to read multiple times and connect ideas from multiple paragraphs , make conclusions. By the way , there is an article that you just brought up that starts with the headline :"No more classes , No more books , ..." How is that article belongs to this discussion ? it is about a student that is happy about the fact the school year was over. (you brought that article in the second link : youthvoice.net...)

hi kiran, I think reading is essential, this helps us , in improving our mistakes, and pronunciation, and also the quality of reading . I don't understand why people want to make such things which , is not good in any way. Instead they can, make necessary efforts in making changes in the syllabus, according to our needs, we still follow the old syllabus which is not very useful now, decrease the burden of books, and also fees structure.There are still so many to do..

Reading is still essential in schools despite hating what I said. It improves fluency, vocabulary, and analytical skills. I fear that their college entrance examination would not be as good as the previous years. But I could simply be exaggerating. Who knows whether a trend will follow, right?

yes! reading classes are not at all heard in most of our schools. there is no period for that in the time table too. moreover there are no trained staffs for handling such classes. with the visual media taking a vital role in the kids' life today, reading habit should be really encouraged as it only can give them freedom to think and imagine.

I think in our old way of thinking, the old schools style, we differently don't agree with this kind of move. We know that we had learned something I school when attending to reading classes. But today, the schools curriculum are getting bolder. The studies that started years ago had now have its results and some of them were integrated already in the new curriculum. Maybe, that includes your concern. But of an old school parent, I would still preferred the way school teaches their students and hopefully will not implement radical change in the curriculum.

Hi, I don't see the rationale of the program. Maybe something is behind it or they something better than reading. I grew up reading and it is still my daily exercise. Children and young adults should not stop doing so, it stunts the learning process and the mind stagnate to the point of being indolent. As I've said, they should have a good reason for not including the reading class in the school curriculum.

Yes, I agree with you that reading is an essential part of education. Good thing here in our country specifically in my kids school, they still have reading sessions. At the start of the school year each students took an exam on reading comprehension and the computer graded them accordingly. My daughter got the highest score in their class and my son got a low grade. My son is in grade 7 but his reading comprehension was only equivalent to grade 6 student. The school principal called a parent-teacher meeting and we discussed the result of the exam. The students are required to have reading sessions in the library 3 times a week. and quarterly they will take the same exam to know their developments.