My kid is 14 going to secondary school in Ireland right now. And I'm helping them with their English homework and I notice how much of it is reading stuff and

My kid is 14 going to secondary school in Ireland right now. And I'm helping them with their English homework and I notice how much of it is reading stuff and trying to get them to question what they are reading etc. Far more than when I was a kid their age, in my English class.