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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Whatever. My kid did it at 6. He had delays but now he is an honor roll student. 6 is late but 2 is hardly the norm.[/quote]

2 is the norm. Some kids are earlier. Some later. It all works out in the end.[/quote]

Not the poster you quoted, but no, 2 really isn't the norm. It might be the norm in 2013 in DC because people are trying to actively teach babies the alphabet and numbers. But in the world in general, 2 is very young for this. [/quote]

+1. I'm from Germany and we don't make toddlers memorize letters and numbers there. Most kids, even from educated families, start learning to read in first grade.[/quote]

This is actually an educational philosophy, yes? My sister went to Waldorf school where they made no effort to teach reading before I think second grade? Somehow all the children turned out not just literate, but also most are doing extraordinary things.[/quote]

I am an Easten European and don't know of anyone reading before age 5. Elementary school starts at get 7. However, the curriculum is much rigorous. Doing pretty elaborate proofs starts at fifth grade.[/quote]
+100.
I also don't get the "my baby could read at 3" humble brag. At some point during the 12 years of learning, the European kids pass Americans kids when it comes to academics.Not sure how it happens or even when....[/quote]

It's kind of absurd. They don't let the little kids play (everything is a "teaching moment" and every toy is "educational") but then, when they actually start school, they play in it, instead of studying![/quote]
you might be right.I had a peace corps teacher from U.S. teaching us English in high school. Everything was a game.Playing games in high school?! The kind of approach wasn't for us.[/quote]

Because Americans believe that learning should be fun, and science is "fun", and math should be "fun, fun, fun". I never heard a teacher in my country claim that studying is fun. Everybody understood that it was not fun, but had to be done. They have these science museums where kids play with laboratory equipment and thinks that is somehow preparing them for scientific work. Umm, no.[/quote]

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