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Teachers expect boys to sit all day and pay attention, and most boys can't.

I'll never forget a comment that an astute teacher made to me one day about "schools breaking little boys' spirits".

I can attest to that!! They almost did my son till I yanked him out.

My son was reading Grissom (sp) Clancey, and what Steven King I would allow, in 6th grade. His teacher had a policy, they could pick any book from the library to read and report on, as long as they could find 4 words by skimming the pages, that they did not know. Now unless I let him read about adult subject matters, or War and Peace or something, he couldn't find 4 words. He was far beyond his grade level, thus I had to fight with the teacher to get a book he could report on.

For a while it totally turned him off on reading, which he loved. I won that fight, finally, but took him out of public school. They just refused to believe he was reading that far above the rest of the kids.