Reading is school doesn’t need to be “fun”. Critical analysis of texts is an important skill schools have to teach. All true.
But it can and should be done in a way so that it doesn’t kill the joy of reading in general.
I absolutely hated reading in school while being an avid reader in private. I hated every single book I had to read in school.
Except Kohlhaas.
Only far later I realised why. It was because we had a competent teacher in that year and the analysing part wasn’t done in a vacuum like with the other books. We even had to reenact parts of the book, which I hated even more than reading the other books.
But because I understood the intention of the book and the analysis tasks, it didn’t cause me to hate the book.
Teachers far too often completely fail or outright neglect to convey the reason to their students why to learn a certain topic.
Not so much of a trope, but misrepresenting simple physics.
Especially everything that has to do with rockets and orbital mechanics.
I get it, Star Trek and Starwars are science fantasy with their own rules about physics. But at least their are consistent. That’s okay.
However there are far to many books which claim within thier stories to adhere to real physics just to then “drop landing pots from the ship in orbit” which fall straight down without any force applied.
Or everyones favourite: the satellite which fires up its engines to reposition itself in the sky.