A place where anyone regards a mitzvah as a slight is a spiritual sewer. In most shuls, the glila is given to a child to include him in the joy of participation in the mitzvah of the tzibbur. I have seen forward (rearward?) thinking places where a literate child is given Maftir. You should pick up and daven elswhere Pop, this attitude is a blight on the whole enterprise.
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