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Originally Posted by Dulin's Books
they use this guideline(not rule) in my son's elementary school for kinder and 1st graders. it helps the children choose reading level appropriate books while in the library. its not a hard and fast rule and its not meant to be used/applied by anyone much older than that let alone adults
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The problem is that as soon as someone introduces anything like this, especially if they seem to have any kind of authority, it immediately becomes gospel (mainly because 'rule' is much snappier than 'guideline'). It's already being peddled all over the internet by people supposedly involved in 'education'. IMHO, it's arrant nonsense - it's giving children the idea at a very young age that if it's too 'hard', it's not worth doing.