I was doing rather well today until I got sidetracked helping Melinda out with her continuing quest to find reading tutors. I’ve been telling her just to check out score learning centers considering they take care of children from 4-14 years old in any program they could need help in, heck she could even throw her into the math program, lord knows her daughter could use the help there too. She’s still trying to convince me that 2+2=22. I’m still unsure of how she managed to get through kindergarten with that mentality. Then again, I think kindergarten is all about eating paste, sniffing play-do and hopefully learning your ABC’s.

The reason she’s so set on getting this accomplished is based on how far advanced the other students are in the school. See, this is supposedly some ritzy school that required a waiting list that you basically had to be on while you were pregnant, not even knowing if you were having a boy or a girl or what their name would be. They’re supposed to increase academics and still balance it out with playtime better than the main-stream public schools that they claim they’re better than. The rest of the students in the class accelerated, I won’t deny this. One of them is on a third grade reading level which is shocking for a six year old but that doesn’t mean the school did it for him, either.

Parents who spend the time with their children before school, and even during the summer, helping them with their reading is when you’ll accelerated. If she’d only spent the time with her daughter that most parents do when teaching a child to read, she wouldn’t have to search high and low for full time tutors.