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Wow, I spent 90% of my free time as a kid in the school library. Reading this hurts. At least they are protecting them from using their brain
I got shunted into remedial reading in the 1st grade because I had a visible disability. I was there for about a week before the teacher noticed I was bored to tears. Bless her, she had me tested. Turns out I was reading at a 4th grade level, so I immediately got taken out of that class and put into the 'gifted' class. That class was the best kind of unstructured. We had a new teacher with little experience, but she…
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