My DIL is home schooling my grandkids. I hate it. The 7 year old is "almost" reading! Heck, most kids read at 5. She thinks she's great at it. Too lazy to get up in the morning and send them to school. Nothing i can say will persuade them to send those kids to school.
That is so sad.
I remember that I was reading by the time I was 4. By the first grade I was reading at a third grade level. I thought that was normal and can still remember sitting in the 'reading circle' with my Fun with Dick and Jane reader in my lap and listening to one of my class mates struggling to read the simple words. I just didn't comprehend why he couldn't do it.
I have my mother to thank for my love of reading. I can remember always having a 'Little Golden Book' in my hands when I was little and grew up being a voracious reader. Still am for that matter.
). Both girls tested out of high school at 16, each took a year off before getting into "formal" education. Older went on to graduate from a Christian College in Ohio with a double major and was "head hunted" while interning at the Columbus Zoo. The younger graduated from the Columbia with a dance major and is on her way at the end of the month to go to work for Disney in Florida.
) I have more books sitting in the cloud than I could probably ever live long enough to read but I'm going to try! That is if I can ever get out of the case full of hardcovers lining my bedroom wall.
