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After Pat quit school, he refused to read a book. He hates them.
Thank you school for teaching my son to hate reading books. My son
has never read a book since school and that was five years ago. He's
had not even one minute of a reading lesson since school. Yet his
reading is excellent.

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Cameron left school at the end of 6th grade with the same attitude: he
would never read another boook. He hated reading. *School* taught him
that.

It took *years* before he read a book (he'd read magazines and music
scores and such). His first book after leaving school was Rue Kream's
Parenting a Free Child. I think he was *almost* 18 when he read that.
His second was Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli.

Right now he's finishing up Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha. <G>

He's a *very* slow reader, and he looks up *all* unfamiliar words. But
he now always has a book (and a dictionary) nearby, just in case.

I doubt it will ever be a passion, but he's learning that it's not this
horrible, painful activity that it was in school. He's *enjoying* it!
<g>


~Kelly

Kelly Lovejoy
Conference Coordinator
Live and Learn Unschooling Conference
http://www.LiveandLearnConference.org
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