I always had assigned reading for the summer break. Now, how many people actually completed it is debatable.

I never had any teachers that tried to do that because it was hard enough to get people to read during the school year. Plus it was never guaranteed that the teacher who assigned the reading would still be there come the next year. Teachers were constantly quitting at my schools.

Why is it sooooooo hard for people to read ONE book over and ENTIRE summer? I always was in summer reading programs where there was competition to read the most books and write a book report on them (1 book = 1 point), the winners were in the 150's! Everyone read at least 20 books.

I myself am an avid reader, on my own and I've never really understood people who flat out dislike reading. I myself did all those summer reading programs and such as well. However, my school for a while had a program called ACR and I hated it. I hated it because it forced everyone into reading levels and then told them that they could ONLY read books on the very specific ACR list that were within their assigned reading level. My reading level from 6th grade on was "11th grade to post college", the books in my level were pretty much all John Grisham, Agatha Christy, and similar novels which I hate. It almost turned me against reading completely because instead of being allowed to read books that matched my reading level that I enjoyed and writing reports and taking quizzes on those, I had to pick one off the list. The list never changed. It was torture every year. Plus teachers would yell at you if they caught you reading something that wasn't part of the ACR list during study hall.

To be clear ACR was a during the school year only program.