Sam Hinkie

Then we started doing a bunch of research and he was a summer birthday in July.

And so then I'm doing all this research on like, are we going to send him to school when he's five?

Are we going to wait until he's six?

And at the time in Texas, everyone's like sending their kids, particularly their boys later to school.

Largely, I think they're playing some weirdo football game or something.

They want him to be a 19 year old strapping linebacker someday in high school.

That's not going to be our kids.

No offense to my genes.

So we're doing all this research.

And of course, the sort of trope is like, if your kid is bright, then they'll be bored and they'll cut up in school and they'll struggle in all these ways.

But of course, there are some on the other side.

And so we do a bunch of research and we finally get to the notion, my wife and I both, we're going to hold them out until he's six and send them to kindergarten as he's six.

But then I read the Texas statutes.

It's clear the schools hate this because it screws up their classes.

They have a bunch of five-year-olds and a bunch of six-year-olds, and they're all in the same class, and everybody's really at different levels.

It makes it hard to teach, understandably.

It's clear they're going to try to make you sign a bunch of waivers, and they're not going to let your kid go, and they're going to try to say, no, you're going to screw your kid up if you don't do this.

And so I call the principal and I'm like, hey, here's the situation.

I've read this.

Here's where we are.