Nobody Wants This

The Hardest Days: When Schools Ignore Tragedy

(originally posted on Medium)

Nobody Wants This

What Should Parents Be Worried About? The Books Their Children Don’t Read

“‘Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.’” So says the ex-English professor in “Fahrenheit 451,” Ray Bradbury’s 1953 novel about life under a book-burning regime. The book is still frequently assigned in US high schools — the sad irony is