I have seen plenty of articles on Free Republic about how children were being held back in school today at alarming rates, especially boys but it was not until a parent-teacher conference last week that it was made perfectly clear to me just how much has changed and how quickly. Our beloved teacher of our May birthday five year old told us that we should consider "pre-first" because his writing skills are in the lower 40th percentile and that he is considered "young" for First Grade. He attends perhaps the most culturally conservative private school in Nashville proper and we...