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Are today’s kids smarter than us? Are today’s toddlers learning more in their (literal) short years than we ever learned in our entire Gen X childhood? When I was but a lad, my reading skills were so abysmal I was relegated to the “yellow” group. This was the group chopped-full of slow, remedial readers, like me. Why yellow? I have no idea, but it stuck and I still seethe with rage. Being labeled as “slow” is something a child (or adult) doesn’t forget. It’s a stigma — it’s one you carry with you throughout your academic career. Sure it was a logical way to divide the kids to accommodate different reading levels and make the most of the time allotted, but once that label is placed on a childs fragile, eggshell mind — it sticks.