I am getting up there in years, but when I was young, they were also teaching us reading in kindergarten. I can recall, with certainty, these folks… https://en

I am getting up there in years, but when I was young, they were also teaching us reading in kindergarten. I can recall, with certainty, these folks… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Letter_People https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Letter_People …and I am fairly sure they had us reading short stories in first grade. (But only fairly certain; I could read short stories halfway through kindergarten, so that could be coloring my recollection.) turning 25 this week…in base-16.