James M. Smith wrote on alt.california:

> I started public school when I was six years old. That was in
> 1941. By the middle of that first year all in the class were
> reading about Dick and Jane and Spot and a ball.

I could read before I started public school in Lawndale/Hawthorne (So.
Calif) I started kindergarten at four years old, that was in the early
50's. My mom taught me to read and count money before my first day. I
blame most of our social problems on parents that flat don't parent
their kids for dink. I'm not saying all parents should teach their kids
to read but I am saying that parenting appears to be a dead art.

'rena


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