Believe me I wasn’t asking for studies to back up your point. I guess you think there is a catch up effect that takes place.
I reject that.
I believe that all things being equal, the child who reads earlier will be a better reader.
But you are right about “whatever floats your boat”. Parents are free to make choices for their kids and they are free to disagree with me. It is the mind of a liberal that believes that they know best for everybody AND they desire the power to enforce their views on others.
And each child is really different. They have to be treated as individuals. I taught myself how to read; by age 4 I was reading 3rd or 4th grade books, I don’t even remember how I learned. My parents used to read out loud to us kids all the time and I probably followed along in the books they were reading.
Other kids want to do other things.
The catch-up effect is something I have read about from more than one source.