Originally Posted by Val
Originally Posted by JollyGG
They looked at me and said, well most our students start K already reading.

Well duh. They've had 3 years of school. Mine had had none.

Hmm. In a situation like this, one needs to probe them for a definition of reading. I suspect that their definition is something like, "Can sound out one-syllable words like cat and sat and stop and recognizes a few sight words," as opposed to "stopped sounding out words long ago and reads books alone."

He's in 6th grade now, so we are long past those days. =)
It was frustrating at the time, but we did end up getting the changes we needed to see.