tyesai
Contributor
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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