Readiness

My mind is blown. 

My elementary school wanted to put me in Readiness. 

For those of you who don’t know, Readiness was this weird in-between grade for students who passed kindergarten but weren’t ready for first grade. As I was not in it, I have no idea what they learned, but probably normal writing and reading stuff. 

I was born at the end of September, and the cutoff date for school was something like September 30th. Whatever it was, the issue was that I was not going to be 6 on the first day of school

I would turn 6 a full 30 days later. 

Apparently a lot of my friends’ parents thought it was a good idea.

Well, for all you who thought I wasn’t ready and whatever, guess what?

I graduated college at 19. What were your kids doing at 19? Being freshmen? 

I was totally smart enough for 1st grade.