I’m the father of three kids and while I won’t say I’m a great dad I think I’m half-way decent. In my experience, kids in kindergarten and later are pretty much all at the same level — I don’t see the point of selecting a super-race among humans who are only recently potty…

— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) October 2, 2025

Wrong. So wrong.

I was vastly ahead of my peers in kindergarten. I could already read at an eithth-grade level. I could tell time on an analog clock¹. For this and other reasons, I was vastly bored in school from the start.

I’d also do all the worksheets for all the kids around me because I could complete them 100x as fast as they could. This was so we could go play more quickly.

Kindergartners are definitely not all at the same level. Important differences show up early.

1. And had my kindergarten teacher get mad because I checked the time off her analog wristwatch. For some reason we weren’t supposed to know what time it was in kindergarten?