I do not live in the US, but this was my experience as well. Actually having read the book made my grades worse, because I now disagreed with the claims the te

I do not live in the US, but this was my experience as well. Actually having read the book made my grades worse, because I now disagreed with the claims the teacher wanted to hear. I was always like: no, I have also read the book and no the author doesn't say that.