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Goodness, this is making me feel old and I'm only 23! I think requiring children to read before they get to kindergarten is just plain nuts. Whatever happened to just letting kids be kids?
When I was a child we always had books in the house and my parents read to me every night, but they didn't teach me my alphabet and certainly didn't try to teach me to read - they felt that was better left to the teachers. (Though I think by the end of it they wished I would just read to myself, as I was always wanting one more story... :P ) When we started learning to read in school, I learned very quickly because I liked books so much and was impatient to read them myself! I think if I'd been forced to read I definitely wouldn't have liked it so much, and wouldn't have wanted to work so hard.
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