Don’t Push Kids to Read Too Early
Better to raise a late reader who loves to read than an early reader who learns to hate reading
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5 min readNov 20, 2019
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This is my son, Sean. He’s all grown up now but when he was turning five on his June birthday I knew in my heart he was not ready for Kindergarten and I also knew he wasn’t ready to start reading; he’s always been the kind of kid who did things his way!
But we had great schools in our town so we signed up for Kindergarten and when I met with the principal about his readiness, I expressed that I was a first-grade teacher and a reading specialist and that I didn’t think Sean was ready to start reading.
Her response? “He’s age-appropriate for Kindergarten, we will serve him.”
That, my friends, is a political response, not a what-is-in-the-best-interest-of-the-child response.
