По­яс­не­ние. Summer reading is a lasting problem for schools. Some say it is wrong to make pupils read much in summer, others argue that it is a positive thing rather than a negative one.

I tend to agree with the former for two main reasons. The first one is that obligation makes kids hate things they are obliged to do, especially such boring thing for kids as reading books. Back when I had to deal with this, all of my peers loathed literature for that very reason, and that is by no means a good thing. The second one is the fact that kids are obliged to read not just any books, but the classic books that were never written for kids, so even if they do read those books, they hardly understand anything.

However, there are people that think the pupils' attitude does not matter and the books accomplish the task of teaching them the language anyway, so there is nothing wrong with making the kids read a lot in summer and in general. They also say that it teaches discipline.

I cannot totally agree with them, though. Indeed, classic literature usually teaches good language and having to read it might teach you discipline, but is it acceptable at a cost of total disrespect and hatred for the pupil's own country's heritage or any literature at all which naturally develop in him because of those unneeded obligations? Definitely not.

To conclude it is safe to say that making pupils read a lot in summertime will not bring us any good now or in the future and this should be changed.