"Jean B." > wrote in message
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> Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 2015-02-05 18:02, Becca EmaNymton wrote:
>>
>>> One of my nieces is in 1st grade and during a spelling test, her
>>> spelling was 100% correct, but the teacher gave her a 77 because of her
>>> poor penmanship. She is also writing in cursive. Her mom is miffed,
>>> because the child is discouraged and she feels like she is stupid.
>>
>> What does penmanship have to do with spelling? When my son was in
>> highschool he has a horrible English teacher who once gave him an F on
>> an assignment. Her only comment was to the effect that he had to start
>> behaving in class. My friend was an English teacher and said he would
>> have given him an A.
>>
>
> I hate all such things! Becca, I hope this girl can regain her
> self-esteem. Dave, what was your son's reaction?
>
> My daughter taught herself to read by age 3. She was a bookworm. Her
> second-grade teacher insisted that she read books at grade level, and that
> killed her love of reading.

I had the librarian try that with me when I was in the 3rd grade. I had
selected a book to check out from the 6th grade section. I had actually
already read pretty much every book there was in our school library from the
3rd grade section but had read them in prior years.

So she told me to come back in after school and if I could prove to her that
I could read the book, I could check it out. Well, not only did she let me
check it out, she gave me a job in the library! She said they had never let
someone so young work in there before but she thought I would be able to do
it. So I learned the Dewey Decimal System. I checked out books and
restocked them as they were returned.

I also decided to start a library in our house. My dad was always bringing
home weird stuff. I have no clue where he got some of this stuff. We
already had date stamps that he got from somewhere and some ink pads. I
figured that we didn't need to bother with the card catalog and all since we
probably only had a hundred or so books in the basement.

That lasted maybe a week or two before my mom got wind of it. Found my
cards (index cards) and weird little envelopes glued into some of the books.
We always had a ton of envelopes too. My mom kept a drawer full of greeting
cards so we would have them just in case.