re: The “READ” bumper sticker. . .

And the schools are doing it too.Currently, I’m seeing a lot “my child read a million words” . I’m seeing such signs as that on front lawns in neighborhoods. And one school’s marquee was congratulating all of their “million word readers”. I don’t think it’s a good theme, to focus on the number of words a child has read. I can imagine kids speed reading through a book, just to increase their word count or whatever and maybe surpass another classmate, and possibly they don’t absorb the proper level of enjoyment or enrichment from the story they’re reading. It becomes all about reaching a number. ( and I haven’t seen the “Read” sticker here in Lafayette, but my liberal sister has the cringy “Coexist “ sticker on her car, plus a BLM yard sign that says “Hate has no home here”. Yeah, right. LOL. She hates Trump, hates conservatives, hates white guys.