Telling 5-Year-Old Kids They’re a Failure is Bullshit

Over on Facebook, I saw a post that shared a note that had been sent home to parents of kindergarten kids in the U.S.

The note referred to the reading program in place to learn district sight words. This is a program where kids can learn common words that they will then recognize instantly.

Words like and, of, is, to, and there, for example.

Our kids have a similar program here in Ontario, Canada, and it can help them learn new words and sentence structures.

However, what our kids don’t have...