Dear Editor:

You may say that some kids don't read over the summer and all we do is play video games, but we do read! We read magazines, video game dialogues and reasonable sized books. Now try to step into our shoes, we have sports, we have friends and family to visit, we have vacations and we want to have fun without being told when and how we should conduct our summer plans.

A reading list is forcing parents and kids to follow a schedule during a time of year when we don't need to be on a strict schedule. Therefore, I say that we shouldn't have a mandatory reading list because kids do plenty of reading each day in a variety of forms– all which will help us be successful in our future; we don't need a list to tell us what to read!

A concerned

student,

Kasey Schlack