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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Aren’t most UMC kids 5-6 grade levels ahead in reading?   [/quote]

Teacher here.  Not even close.[/quote]

NP. Agree! There is a lot of mediocrity in the UMC children. Their parents are raising a fantasy.[/quote]

As opposed to what? Where do you think all the brilliant children are hiding?[/quote]

There just aren’t many brilliant children. Or brilliant people in general. Every other parent in DC thinks their child is “advanced”. By the end of my kids school journey in DC , nearly every one in their social academic cohort was on the same level. Pure fantasy. [/quote]

Academic differences get more pronounced as kids get older. Maybe if your "social academic cohort" was all kids whose parents have graduate degrees and you're defining "same level" extremely broadly, this is the case. But my kids are at a title 1, and it's unfortunately not the case that the kids struggling when they're younger catch up. [/quote]

Sometimes, but this thread is about super-early readers. In my experience, there's a wide range of age when kids learn to read, and the first half of that range doesn't correlate closely with academic results in upper elementary. My DD, who learned to read at 3, is a bright child, but her friends who learned at 5 or 6 are doing equally as well as she is now that they are all 10 years old. What seemed like a big gap has closed. Kids who are still struggling to read at 7 or 8 are a different thing. Super-early fluency just doesn't predict that much compared to early fluency.[/quote]

I agree with this completely. This squares with what I've seen. Some super early readers do end up being advanced, but some age 6 readers will get to the same level as them by the end of upper elementary, and some will leapfrog over earlier readers.[/quote]

Yes. My DS read well at a pretty average age - I think by the end of K, so around 6? And now at 10 is very advanced (almost college level). Yet refuses to read anything other than graphic novels. [/quote]

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