by surfsteve » Mon Apr 08, 2013 12:19 pm
The bouncing Frito bag brings back old memories. For as long as I could talk I was asking my mom to teach me how to read and her answer was they will teach you when you go to school. Watching the bouncing ball at age 4 to the song Old McDonald, was the key to teaching myself how to read. Just a few short weeks later I was able to read big thick books on geology and biology and had special permission to use the adult library. I still remember my mom telling me I couldn't attend school till I was five years old, waking up on the morning of my 5th birthday and packing my lunch to get ready for school, only to find out that I had to wait till that September. From there on out it was one disappointment after another. I was so disappointed in kindergarten to find out that they didn't teach reading. But nothing pissed me off as much as having to read about Sally, Dick and Jane in the first grade and Dr. Seuss books. It seemed at the time as if somebody was intentionally trying to undermine the public education system.
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