Maximus (not verified) — Thu, 08/21/2008 - 11:58am

I don't fully agree with you. it seems very unfair for you comparing senior high school students with primary 5 student. It is not their time yet to read such those complicated works. Complicated? In United states most students are familiar with literature works such as Shakespeare and the gang but 70% of them fail with literature. so if you push primary students to be able to understand literature I think you're killing them softly. you're going too far with them. Besides I don't think that all students in Albania who are familiar with literature really enjoy their study. I bet at least 50% percent of them fell sick of that thing.
second I don't agree that comics and all that Japanesse reading stuff are bad or has low quality for children. if you look out to the world, animation things are more popular comparing to the literature. it also makes good money. it inpires many people to make the movies (spiderman,batman,superman come from American comics not American literature so what's wrong with the japanesse), create courses to draw (it happens in Indonesia, especailly Jakarta where there are courses that teach the students to make comics), etc.
so parents if you think that your children must read serious things such as literature, science, religion, etc... and avoid comics, please you're just making yourself a dictator. you can't push or force everybody to follow you. it is much better for you to help them to develop their hobbies, find their talent and facilitate it.