I’ve also never met a 5 year old tall enough to read the top shelves at stores. Children generally only have an interest/awareness of things on their own level unless they’re looking for something specific (and even then, they’re more likely to search low).
Reminds me of 6th grade social studies. Our world history textbook had a chapter on early human ancestors and human origins - Australopithecus, Homo Habilis, Homo Erectus, origins in Africa, Neanderthals, all that jazz. I grew up in the Bible Belt so evolution wasn’t on the curriculum. Our teacher could’ve just skipped it and nobody would’ve cared. Less reading, yay! But instead she stopped to say “Chapter three conflicts with my personal beliefs, and is not required in the curriculum, so we will not be covering it in this class.” You bet that’s the only chapter I actually read.
I grew up in Pennsylvania and at the beginning of each school year in high school both our science and history teacher had to tell us that they only teach Creationism and any discussion suggesting otherwise will not be tolerated. This was a public school!
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u/sunsetgal24 6d ago
And it's not like a 5 year old has the context to understand what any of those words mean.