In elementary school through grade 4 the school year ran from Labor Day to Memorial Day and my school day was from 0900 to 1500 hrs. I had an hour for lunch and 2 15 minute recesses. I learned more of the 3Rs etc, especially history, than any kid gets in public school now by ninth grade. I learned to spell. I learned times tables and adds and grammar and geography and science and spelling and penmanship and was reading “ninth grade” books in third grade as were all my classmates. Most of that stuff they don’t even try in public school now. Anyone who sends his kids to public school does not care about his children-no excuses- it is so.
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