For many Regis Jesuit students, when a teacher presents a reading assignment, you can hear the quiet clicking of keyboards typing throughout the classroom. Teachers assume that the students are writing down the reading that they were assigned, when in reality, students are searching the web, praying that there is an online summary for the book.
Many high schoolers have become far too reliant on online summaries and it is starting to become noticeable in both quiz grades and homework. “In a lot of my classes, it’s kind of entertaining to watch when the teacher gives a quiz after a reading assignment. If the book has sparknotes available, the class usually does relatively well, but if there isn’t any form of online summary, everyone freaks out and acts like the quiz isn’t fair” said Dom Deane ’16.
With sources like these available, it becomes easy to slack and forget the purpose of school. “It’s not that using online summaries is a bad thing, you just can’t rely on them completely. Using them to review is one thing but using them as your only source is an awful idea” Deane added.

Just like any type of resource, sparknotes can be helpful, as long as you keep in mind that the purpose of school is to learn and experience the lessons that you learn not to slip by without doing work.