I was sitting with my niece today trying to help her with her homework because I saw her strruggling, hard with her math. Shes a shy child so she was afraid if saying the wrong answers, but I was paitent and helped her through it. I knew she always had a problem with reading, so I decided that I'd let her read a story to me and help her along the way. While she read, I was greatly disturbed at how far behind she was. She's 10 and she has been left behind twice. She is in the third grade and no one in her family seems to care. My sister, her mother, instead just calls her stupid and they've actually made fun of her reading and expected me to laugh along with them. I did NOT find this amusing but when I told my sister how disgusting this was she just blew me off. As my niece read I noticed that she constantly skipped over or missed words that were there. She skipped whole sentences as well and confuses the letters B and D all the time. Instead of 'our' she replaces it with 'your' she als
2006-09-11
11:41:07
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Kevyn S
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