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Glad you brought this up! I felt the article, even the summary when I saw it on Instagram, screamed "kids these days! get off my lawn!" It is being shared as if it were a study. 33 hand-picked opinions does not a study make. I even had a relative who is a high school English teacher share it in agreement, which surprised me. MY anecdotal evidence as a non-teacher non-parent is that all my nieces and nephews constantly are reading books. So, maybe I should write an article about that! Haha. Perhaps the next think piece can be about the infinitesimally short attention spans and lack of literacy that the typical adult has...

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