/lit/ - Literature

I can state plainly that in my entire secondary school life from ages 11 to 18 I did not see a single student reading a book in their spare time for fun. If a book was ever pulled out by a student it would have been a declaration of "I AM DIFFERENT" or even "I AM BETTER THAN YOU". So you would have absolutely been ridiculed.

That being said said I have just recalled the rules were a bit different for girls. If one of the quiet girls opened up a book that wouldn't have been a big deal, they would have been left alone. I don't recall it ever happening, probably due to how little anybody would care. I'm not entirely sure why it is different for them. Maybe something to do with expectations, because the quiet girls always had all their stationary, books, and were always good in class with high grades.

I wish it was normalised in my school because there's no question I would have begun reading earlier.