A Word About Inventive Spelling

I never understood why it was taught this way and asked it not to be done.

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It was the 2005–06 school year and my middle son was in kindergarten. His older brother was in 5th grade and his younger brother was 3 years old, at home with me.

Immediately, I noticed some differences between how kindergarten was taught in 2000 and then in…