Age 10 Seems Too Young for Certification

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Rick,

You are right, of course.

By the time my oldest was 4 years old, he was reading whatever he wanted. A year later, we enrolled him in the local school's state mandated kindergarten program. The first day, his teacher sent home a note asking for a parent-teacher meeting. At the meeting, I was given a dressing down for having taught my son how to read (and do basic arithmetic). Her stated reason was that, because my son could read and was reading aloud in front of the other children, it was making the other kids feel bad about themselves. She then told me to hold my son back and let the other kids catch up so he would "fit in" and conform to the standards set for kids his age.

I told her I was not about to hold my son back and I took him out of public school. I taught him at home until high school, then enrolled him in a private school. He is now doing well in his third year of college.

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Tyesai,
That actually is a pretty interesting website. Thanks.
 
Paladin954:
The first day, his teacher sent home a note asking for a parent-teacher meeting. At the meeting, I was given a dressing down for having taught my son how to read (and do basic arithmetic). Her stated reason was that, because my son could read and was reading aloud in front of the other children, it was making the other kids feel bad about themselves.

She should not be teaching. I don't think she should be even allowed around children.
 
Her stated reason was that, because my son could read and was reading aloud in front of the other children, it was making the other kids feel bad about themselves. She then told me to hold my son back and let the other kids catch up so he would "fit in" and conform to the standards set for kids his age.

Hah! You should've told her hopefully your son will continue to exhibit the kind of higher achievement for the rest of his life, both educationally, vocationally and financially, that may intimidate other children (although that's not the purpose), and that his future upscale neighborhood and lifestyle won't fit in with most of his classmates', either. That's okay. Mediocrity is not the target in a capitalist society.

I watched a parody fake commercial for an Apple computer years ago with some little kids discussing the computers their Dads got them, and the work they did with them, and the Apple kid had a much better project. At the close, a narrator comes on and says something like 'Macintosh...the power to crush the other kids.'

Sometimes school education can have a communist/socialist style (we're here to help everybody achieve their potential, but the collective is more important than the individual). But what parent sends their kid to school with that philosophy (instead of ambition for the success of their own kid(s))?

Richard.
 

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