Reply #2: Other: It depends on their desired outcomes.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

Scientific journals are often overly long, convoluted documents that do little more than pat other researchers on the back in an echo-chamber like exercise. If one has a goal of becoming a researcher, then it is a useful thing to do. Otherwise, I see no specific reason for forcing the practice in high school, and in fact, see a great detriment in having students read exceedingly dry material that can go a long way towards dissuading them from going further in science fields - which is something we greatly need to have more kids do. It's this line of thinking that gets people thinking that science is boring and just for "geeks" instead of being unbelievably fascinating and fun to study (which I think it is).