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dem in texas

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1. Grandma is a teacher
Tue Dec 17, 2013, 01:21 PM
Dec 2013

I was called for jury duty waiting in the big room and talking to the lady sitting next to me. I asked her what she did and she said she was a teacher. Where do you teach I asked her. She said, oh I home school my grandchildren.

My sister has a master's in reading education and is a reading specialist testing children's reading skills for her school district. She said she has found that home schooled children do well on math and science tests, but score low on reading tests. To my way of thinking, reading comprehension is the most important thing you learn in school, because that is the base you need to learn all other types of things.

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