I have couple things to add- my school district and my highschool especially put a HUGE emphasis on reading, you must read and you must be able to comprehend novels to graduate, unfortunately the internet has made cheating exceedingly easy, many kids never do a single book report in highschool
, it's all downloaded from the internet.
and on a scary note: some highschool aged kids don't know what the Holocaust was
and MOST have no idea what the Cold War was....