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by crawfordcomeaux 1366 days ago
I've heard there's evidence that delaying literacy and numeracy has meaningful and potentially desirable effects on brain development. If a child and parents want to test that out, why not allow them to do so?
2 comments

Yes if you mean starting to teach them read and write at 7 instead of at 5.

No if you mean cutting away majority of curriculum and teaching the rest by having kid doing sheets alone on kitchen table until isolated bored kid slows or gives up.

Yeah, the former.
Children cannot provide informed consent, for one