OLATHE, KS — In yet another story that was sure to serve as ammunition for advocates for the benefits of public schooling over other educational options, reports surfaced this week that a local 3-year-old homeschooler hasn't even read War and Peace yet.

The heartbreaking situation was initially reported to authorities after a neighbor of the young boy, Braden Anderson, overheard his family discussing how he had been lagging behind in his studies, with the neighbor becoming particularly shocked by the revelation that he hadn't completed Tolstoy's 19th-century war epic.

"How can he ever expect to make something out of himself by slacking off like this?" the neighbor asked. "Why, my young girl had not only completed War and Peace by the time she was 3 years old but she had completed Tol

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