DD is 6, she is a good reader - is on the last level of reading and will soon be an independent reader.
She brought home a school reader last night about Refugees. The story was about a little girl who had to flee her wartorn home after it was bombed and move into a tent city/refugee camp. The family are separated and the little girl is incredibly distressed. She does make a new friend in the concentration camp but then the family are accepted to move to Australia. On the day the are due to move her grandpa announces he will be staying as he wants to die in his homeland! DD could read the book and understood it but was a bit upset - particularly about the family being split up and Grandpa's decision to remain behind to die.
I was a bit gobsmacked really. Is this really what six year olds read in school readers these days? Should I talk to the teacher? Or would I seem like "that mother" if I did?
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Age appropriate readers. What do you think about this?
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MrRected · 12/02/2014 00:22
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