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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am sick of hearing about snowflakes are bored in school! [/quote] Amen. I mean seriously - what kid actually comes home and tells their parent they are bored in elementary school. I just can't imagine saying something like that when I was in early elem school. [/quote] My kid. My 7 year old complains loudly and consistently that his 2nd grade teacher is teaching "baby math" and that it's boring. At home, he was exploring square roots and squares last week. I haven't had a math class in 25 years, and I was doing okay, until he asked me if negative numbers have a square root. He's not "bright." He's gifted. This is typical for gifted kids. [/quote] No, he's not gifted, he's bright, and it's great that he's picked up these concepts somewhere, but it's not earth-shattering. A term like "gifted" is false modesty. Check Twitter and you'll see all these posts from kids and adults bragging about this and that, yet covering it with "#blessed." Seems the culture these days is all about branding, and it's relected by all the labels parents want pinned to their kids from an early age.[/quote] I also have a 3rd grader who in 2nd grade mastered square roots. I have no idea where he heard about them. He was taught himself multiplication in 1st grade. But he is not bored in school. He loves school. We are in a better DCPS school. He thinks his teachers are the coolest people on earth. He raves about them. I want him to stay feeling great about school, and I do worry about the future. I do think we have modeled good attitudes abotu school, learning, math and his teachers to him. I hate the thought of hours of homework - so I want to stay away from the top privates and the couple of ultra-academic charters. We don't say, "Poor RIcky, you must be so bored at school!" He also loved explaining math to/tutoring his peers. Becasue we have no gifted programs in DC, I don't hear people talking about them much. I'm glad when I do (suburbanites at church) because it makes me think about whether we should move, it gives me information. I generally don't find it braggy - at least with my friends. And the two kids I'm thinking of have decent social skills (although one is ADHD and rather obviously so). [/quote]
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