be me friend is talking about a book he's been reading sounds super cool from how he describes it awesome magic and fighting and great plot etc etc etc look up the title later its a fucking chapter book What the fuck is it with these authors, who come up with such great ideas but then dont have the willingness to make it a manga or even a graphic novel? Fuck my life, I got excited over nothing
When I was getting my teaching license I had a class of 11th grade honors students (though that was technically not the top level class bc you could also do an AP class above that) and the teachers I was interning under said they couldn't assign reading homework because pretty much the entire class wouldn't do it. So we just used a bunch of class time to read out loud to the students while they followed along in their books.
In the end it didn't end up taking quite as much time as I thought and the students still engaged with the material, but it kinda blew my mind to be told that kids in a non-remedial class a year away from either college or jobs just basically refused to read. And this was quite some time ago, well pre-pandemic.