Yeah, so that is what I am getting at. The idea that you stated, "if they can find something that keeps them interested and doesn't do them any harm, why not let them be enthralled with whatever they choose?" If I can't decide what is crap than how can I decide if it is "doing them any harm." I firmly believe that if you watch nothing but MTV then you will become a dumber person. You have no balance. Your viewing world is filled with sex, drug, and immoral values. That seems harmful. If they read nothing but ONE genre and the genre does not create good balance than should I be excited just because they string words on a page together? I am not excited by this. I feel like it is just giving up. No, not every student is going to fall in love with reading the canon, but does that mean they shouldn't have to read it? Why does the student have to like everything we throw at them? At some point don't they just need to know certain things? I don't know. Novels without substance is like food without nutrition. Both seem to do harm.
PS. I realize I have no data to prove that reading "crap" is detrimental to mental health, but I don't think anyone here has data to prove that it is not harmful.
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