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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As with most things in education, it's a class/income thing. For kids w/o learning differences, being in a household with adults with intensive verbal interaction and vocabulary, who model reading all the time, and spend a lot of time reading to their children produces kids who learn to read easily. Research seems to indicate that phonics instruction is more useful to kids from lower education and income backgrounds, so it makes sense that it be the principal approach used in public education. But, for parents whose children learned to read early and easily, the amount of formal reading instruction in the early primary grades is not only a waste of time, it feels so basic as to border on the oppressive.  That's why none of the selective private schools in the area spend nearly as much time on reading instruction as the publics and none use phonics exclusively. [/quote]

Rich kids are dyslexic, too, PP. Rich kids, poor kids, middle class kids, white kids, black kids...we come in all shapes and forms. And dyslexia is very common - perhaps up to 10% of kids. My kid's fancy private school has three dyslexics (that I know of) in a class of 40.[/quote]

Funny how you missed the part where the PP wrote w/o learning differences.

This was my experience as well in fancy private school. One kid was dyslexic in class of 22. By 2nd grade they realized this and he was given appropriate tutoring through a partnership with a fancy SN private school. [/quote]

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