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Comment #91

2005-11-18T13:17:16Z

She (Scout) valued her reading times with her father; they were the best part of the day for her. So when her teacher told her that Atticus had to stop teaching her, Scout wanted to quit school - her father teaching her was better than this lady any day.

Comment #90

2005-11-18T02:58:26Z

Why did scout want to stay home from school?

Comment #89

2005-01-26T11:40:38Z

I wonder how widespread this really is. I know my parents worked hard to get the school to do extra stuff for us. It helped having Dad teach there for a while before I was in school, so we knew lots of teachers personally.

I think I was a grade ahead in math and english for the first couple years, and then in third through fifth grade, just did independent studies for math and computers.

The story is not as good once I got to seventh grade, where apparently there was a confrontation with my mom and the guidance counselor, who mom was already on swell terms due to Ben being in band, which of course, shouldn't really count as a scholastic activity, and certainly people don't need to take it every year -- they can't really be learning more stuff each year, since the director has to teach the younger ones the same stuff all over again. (:

My parents also picked our teachers all the way through elementary school, something I didn't find out about until much later, I had thought it was sort of funny that Ben and I had mostly the same teachers, and in sixth grade, a friend and I realized that we always had the same teachers.

Comment #88

2005-01-25T18:36:29Z

It reminds me of To Kill A Mockingbird. Scout begs her dad to let her stay home from school, mainly because her teacher told her that she was not allowed to read with her dad anymore because he wasn't supposed to be teaching her. Atticus gives her a deal - he will still read with her every day if she continues to go to school, and it would be wise to not mention that to the teacher.