““If we don’t try to keep up, our kids are going to fall behind,” she said.”
I could read when I was 3.
My mother taught me...with paper and a pencil because iPads didn’t exist in 1964 but *somehow* we managed.
In the 4th grade, the PTA made a video of me reading college level text books to “pimp” the school’s ‘academic record’ to sponsors and donors.
Ha.
Everybody else in my class was reading “Ralph The Motorcycle Mouse”.
[which, while amusing enough, lacked secondary character development]
Stop bragging! All salamanders can do that!
:-)
The point you make is an excellent one. With proper parental care and attention many things can be done that aren’t being done. We can once again lead the world in education if we can shake the chains of liberal destruction from our shoulders.
I see no problem with 5 year olds having iPads. It is simply an additional tool, is easier to handle and use than a textbook, even if the book has only pictures and letters, and it has the ability to speak to the students.
There may be no problem in Auburn, Maine, but in many locales older kids and young adults will be taking them from the 5 year olds on the way to and from school.