Something also to consider, when teaching young folks to shoot:
A 1/16” front sight bead/blade at 32” from the shooter’s eye (measuring my son’s Savage Mark II pictured above), subtends 7moa. Given the little light around the front bead in the rear sight, we also have a bit of float somewhere on the order of 2moa. Do we really expect a 5-6, or even 8yr old shooter to hold perfect head alignment for “equal light and equal height,” to freeze that 2moa float, simultaneously centering that 1/16” bead beneath the target - without wiggling its own 7moa side to side? Especially when we force them into a stock which doesn’t have appropriate comb height for their tiny little faces to properly align with the sights… Even worse, when parents/friends/grandparents stand the kid up without support - with a buttsrock too long for their arms and too front heavy for their stature, AND ask them to pull a poor quality trigger which is overweight for their young hand/finger strength… Why would we expect them to be able to deliver shots on target? Why would we expect them to enjoy failing?
Why not stick a 2-4moa red dot on top which improves their aiming points AND reduces the criticality of consistent head position upon sight alignment, raise their comb to allow a solid cheek weld so they CAN align well, cut a stock which actually fits their body, tune a trigger to offer 2-3lb pull which suits their limited finger strength so they don’t push or pull their rifle around to struggle through the trigger, and give them supports to fire from so they aren’t fighting to hold the rifle. Then when they have developed competency, remove some support, or independently change to irons or a scope to build more and more skills from an easily attained foundation.
You know, that whole “progressive improvement learning methodology.” Like learning addition and subtraction before you take on calculus and differential equations. Like learning how to walk before learning how to do backflips…