Essay written by dear daughter Ava, age 8
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I’m not sure about others but I find this post encouraging. I think my son would track with her developement but I know he doesn’t track with the system’s learning outcomes. This proves that not teaching your children to death still results in a “successful” adult. That classical education is still thourough even if academics are delayed. Very helpful for me as a mother of little ones.
That is precious!
I LOVE that! Even though her spelling wasn’t “correct”, it was consistent. She was obviously using the soft g sound ranter than a j. Pretty smart!