>>37748143When I was a kid I was only allowed to watch TV on the weekends, and I didn't have any video games until I was probably 12 or 13
My solo entertainment was reading. It's as much on children's parents as it is on the school systems to cultivate an interest in reading. Schoolwork will always be intensive reading, where students are expected to pick up on strictly corralled themes for a grade. It's up to a kid's parents to hand them a Goosebumps, Animorphs, Earthsea, Redwall, whatever book, and then show interest in it to keep the child motivated.
Someone who grows up with their brain constantly attuned to twitch streams and fortnite won't be able to pick up a Steinbeck or Nabokov novel in their free time and enjoy it because they'll never have learned to be interested in enjoying quiet time focused on a book.
