So what is the message here? You've got to read to increase your vocabulary to ace the SAT or prepare for college - for a means to an end? Perhaps that's fine for some students, but it turns off a lot of students from reading when we force the classics or other books down kids' throats. Why does everything have to be aimed at material gain or success, even reading? Why do we have to 'teach' a moral or lesson through reading (so 19th-century)?
I guess you won't be buying "Wuthering Heights: A Kaplan SAT Score-Raising Classic" and other books in the Kaplan series
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