We live in Union County. I will have to drive him if he goes to the Charlotte Metrolina Scholars Academy next year. We are going to go to the open house for MSA and check it out. We may look at Latin as well, but it will be a stretch to pay the tuition every year. What is your experience with the MSA program? Are you happy with the program? My concern is that MSA appears to be operating on a shoe string budget. Also, his main motivation to go to school was to ride the school bus with his friends so yanking him out to go to Latin or MSA may not make sense.
To answer the reading questions. He can read closed captions on the television. (We can turn off the sound and he can still tell what is going on in the show and gets mad when we take them off.) He can read the standard fare of kids books like Dr Seus and train picture books for 8 to 10 year olds. He REALLY likes trains. He wants me to take him to China to ride the Maglev train in Shanghai. Haven't tried Harry Potter because he is not in to it. Other Stuff. He is getting close to playing twinkle, twinkle little star on the violin, a white belt in karate, and learning to swim.
In other words, he is a smart, normal four old with pushy parents. Is he a child prodigy? Probably not.
