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How much reading should high school students do?

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3 hrs minimum
33person · 26-30, M
@SW-User Over the course of 4 years? That's only 45 minutes a year. (I know that's not what you meant. I just want to take you painfully literally.)
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@33person Haha, btw how many hrs does an average American hs senior devote to reading?
33person · 26-30, M
@SW-User Reading literature? The average? You don't want to know. Probably they just sparknotes everything.
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@33person Wait you meant literature? I was referring to revising what’s done in class daily
33person · 26-30, M
@SW-User I mean literature, like from a novel or something for an English literature class or independent reading.
As for the average high school senior, total revising per day is probably an average of 2 hours: good students spend about 3-4 hours on average, and then some students do very little. For a variety of reasons. Some because they are lazy af. Some because they work full-time while in high school because their family needs more income. So the average, I would say, is 2 hours.
33person · 26-30, M
@SW-User So what is your answer, when you understand the question the way I intended?
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@33person 2.5 hrs
33person · 26-30, M
@SW-User So only 30 minutes on all other subjects combined?
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@33person Nah, that depends on what the other subjects are
33person · 26-30, M
@SW-User Okay, but no matter what, they need to read literature for 2.5 hours per day? We've established that?
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