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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also reading at 4 confers no long term advantages to kids and may even set up bad habits if they are not ready[/quote]

All the "studies" that claim the above only looked at Head Start" kids - who by definition live in deprived circumstances.

The quoted claim above is emphatically not true for UMC kids.  Reading at age 3 or 4 is fairly normal for UMC kids and it conveys long term academic advantages. [/quote]

Early childhood educator here. Reading at 3 or 4 is not fairly normal or even typical for UMC kids. Teaching kids to read at this age is usually developmentally inappropriate. Kids at 3 or 4 in preschool are focused on pre literacy skills, building letter awareness, and emergent writing skills. Sure, a lot of academic preschools do teach it (because rich parents expect it early) but that doesn’t make it developmentally appropriate. And please do cite your studies about long-term academic advantages. My guess is the many other benefits of being in an UMC household are the cause of those advantages, not the fact that those kids learned to read very very young. [/quote]

And posts like this explain why so many parents on DCUM do not trust Education Schools…[/quote]

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