Couldn't Resist Running the NumbersOn this story about a
principal who agreed to eat worms if the kids in his school achieved a goal of reading 100 million words. Now I'm a big fan of the idea of trying to encourage kids to read, and I know that there are some kids who won't read anything. But the story says that there are 293 kids in the school, so that's about 340,000 words per child. If we estimate that a typical children's book runs about 50,000 words that works out to be a little less than 7 books per child.
I would have done that in a week. But then I was a bookworm from the moment I learned to read.
