Yes, you can't expect a kid to know something they have never been exposed to.
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Not a statement I would make on this board -it's been proved wrong too many times!
I think my comment was taken the wrong way. I am not "surprised" when it happens, it happens all the time, particularly with our kids. But I don't think you can expect it and I don't think that when a kids doesn't "spontaneously" learn something that means they are not PG or HG or whatever (I've seen schools try to claim this, "oh, Johnny can't be PG, he didn't teach himself algebra"). So I guess my emphasis would be on the term "expect."
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