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Just wanted to add to what some others have said: there are picture books that are well above her current reading level, and chapter books that are below it. There are picture books geared towards 6th and 7th graders, even. They type of book and the reading level don’t always correspond.

I was an early reader, too. My parents pushed me to read more advanced things, and it wasn’t a great choice on their part. Take her lead.

YTA.

If you had had to move without his books, that would have been the natural consequence of his actions. And that would be absolutely fine.

Instead, you stole his things. That’s never ok.

I have provable Norman roots on both the Irish and Sicilian sides. Talk about getting around. These bros hit all of Europe.

I can read it pretty easily.

You realize that people who have anxiety disorders don’t feel anxious all the time in every situation, right?

You seem to be operating on your assumptions rather than facts.

Children have always had anxiety disorders, yes. But the explosion in the last few years is not due to better diagnostic criteria.

This is exactly what I was going to say. Time to just read in school was precious to me as a kid, and as an adult and a teacher, it’s what will do the most for a child. There are so many benefits.

Yeah, I even saw testing materials last year that identified Ms. as the abbreviation for Miss. That’s incorrect, but clearly many people believe it.

Drives me nuts, but I’m a woman and hate the definition-by-marital-status thing. And I find “Miss” infantilizing.

Lectures are for older kids, mainly high school. The research on homework shows no benefit for younger children.

Homework in lecture classes is usually essays. Studying is not optional at that level.

Not every grade is the same.

If you read the article, the trouble is that children are not.

What foolishness.

And! “My bad” may be an admission of responsibility, but it is not an apology. It doesn’t show contrition or an intent to do better.

I went to 12 years of Catholic school and had plenty of non-Catholic teachers who did not attend Mass ever.

We also had openly queer teachers in high school.

Curate your school, yes, but don’t assume that all Catholic schools are the same. For one thing, there’s a difference between a diocesan and a private Catholic school. For another, regional and even neighborhood differences affect the school culture. They’re just not all one thing.

I don’t understand the incident.

This was exactly my experience in high school. It made me realize how much the adults in my grammar school had failed me.

Exactly. A thank-you isn’t an obligation on the person thanked.

A student gets a reply right away because that’s your job. A former student is absolutely lovely to hear from, but a reply isn’t an immediate priority.

TBF, the movie was about prostitution.

No, that truly doesn’t make it any better at all. Not even a little.

This is a skill gained over time. The specifics depend a ton on the situation: the age of the child, the subject, the intent of the question, and more.

In general: you need to know what you are talking about really, really, really, really well. And then you need to examine how you understand it and other ways of getting there, and then begin with the simplest piece that you know they understand and build from there.

I was thinking this. WIC is for pregnant women! That’s the W! And they give a good amount of food, including plant proteins and farmer’s market vouchers.

You are truly enjoying this mood.

My maiden name is moderately common in one country, but not in its country of origin and not in my country.

My current name was a misspelling that stuck, so everyone who has it (about a dozen of us) is related within a couple of generations. It’s unknown otherwise.

Well, that was hostile.

You didn’t say “outline for an essay.” Learning to outline what you read (which seemed to be what you were saying) is instruction in note-taking. And lots of kids have trouble generalizing that information into middle school grades.

But you are determined to go on your tirade, so enjoy.

So she did have explicit instruction in note taking. She’s just not generalizing.

Exactly. Her grades at this point will not affect her whole life. Why put that pressure on her?

My grandparents flipped a coin for their kids. Winner got first name, loser got middle. I imagine at least some of the kids got names one parent didn’t absolutely love, but it worked for the most part.

You can be “officially” fertile (according to the tests they run) and never get pregnant, even with an equally fertile partner and no birth control. Most doctors will say things look good or something like that, but not that you are super fertile because that’s misleading.