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An experiment:

Reblog if, at some point in your educational life, you have gotten in trouble for reading a book that ‘wasn’t assigned to you’ or reading ahead in a book you were given in class or reading under your desk

*goes off laughing, occasionally pausing to wheeze “at some point” before losing it again*

It was damn near daily.

But I was the unreasonable one for hating school. Sure. Okay.

Still don’t want to sing your bitchass “Marching to Pretoria” song, Ms. H. Suck a mossy crocodick.

ALWAYS.  CONSTANTLY.

I remember when I figured out that if I was called on to read in class once per class, I could read ahead as much as I wanted after that.  So I would volunteer right at the beginning of reading time and then finish the book, and read something else under the desk.

There were two glorious years where not only did I not get in trouble, but was encouraged to read ahead and read other books. Before that… well, there was “they just memorized the book you read them” (so goes the reasoning for putting a child reading books their classmates wouldn’t read for another year or two in the lowest reading level group in kindegarten), and “you’re stupid” (couldn’t see the board, so ignored the board and read books at my desk instead). And after, “You need to stay with the rest of the class” (lots, especially in history or social studies), and “you’re not allowed to bring your own books” (high school), and “pay attention” (all the damned time).

(And then, do not even get me started on the “read this over the summer so you’re caught up with your grade level” bullshit that forced me to read things that were boring, trite, or were books I’d read years before that and considered well below my reading level, and lowered my grade when I refused to do so.)