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To: Tublecane
We had kindygarden, and it was worthless. Nothing but Rousseauan, progressive, German, Deweyan nonsense.

We actually had no free public kindergarten when I was that age, so I started with first grade. Sounds like I didn't miss much.

No real education started until 1st grade, which is when they bothered to teach reading. 2nd grade started times tables, I think, third cursive, and so on. 1st through 7th could probably be taught in a year, if you were really motivated.

I could read by the time I got there, and we did cursive in second and by third we were on exponents, so I think you're probably right.

19 posted on 02/15/2013 9:49:47 AM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Still Thinking
We actually had no free public kindergarten when I was that age, so I started with first grade. Sounds like I didn't miss much.

We had kindergarten, but it wasn't required and I didn't go.

I subsequently did well all through school. I don't think I missed anything at all. Somehow I figured out how to cut with scissors without their help.

23 posted on 02/15/2013 9:54:23 AM PST by marron
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