Just as a funny aside, DS (3rd grade) is taking his own book to school, an encyclopedia of wars. It is a scholastic book so I figured it can't be that bad, but I paged through it and there is a photo of a dead body in a trench. DS loves that book so no way would I ever take it away, I just hope no one at school looks too closely at it! So far no one seems too interested in what he is reading. Everyday he comes home and says "I finished the Civil War!" or "I am now on the Korean War!" Makes me wonder why I'm sending him to school, since he can do this at home, but that's another topic. I'm just glad they are letting him read (it sounds like half the day) rather than forcing him to do a silly curriculum instead.