Amen on a multitude. My favorite was the expensive school I fax our testing etc to and called. No all our kids are gifted our class is very challenging we wouldn't skip. Three days later the phone rings... sure skip, and we could do something. But that isn't really their philosophy. They just kiss tail of all parents to get all that money from folks.

And I would be very suspect at this point of any K teacher who hasn't seen a kid read. Most classrooms now have at least one reader... now those kids may not be reading like many of your sons and daughters but still...