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[quote=Anonymous]DD is in 2nd grade, so too young for the gifted program and I have no clue if she'd qualify anyway. She is very bright in the sense that she enjoys school, sails through the assignments and tests and rarely, if ever, struggles with new material being presented. However she is just dumped into one of the mid-level reading and word study groups and even though the teachers claim these groups are "fluid" and can anytime, its been my experience they don't really.

I feel like all of my daughters teachers, while nice enough, basically ignore my daughter. She's not so freakishly bright that she blows them away and they give all this attention to differentiation, but she's obviously not struggling in anyway. So she just floats along doing exactly what is expected of her but never being challenged in any way. She could ace the Friday word study test on Monday. The teacher sends home all these science and social studies "study guides" for upcoming tests and encourages us to review them with the kids, but my daughter knows the info cold whenever I discuss with her, and when I don't bother the review, she still aces the tests.

I'm not saying my daughter is super unique - I'm willing to bet there are several kids in her class that fit this description. So why don't they make the work harder? Challenge these kids? I feel like the teacher looks at her and thinks "Phew! A student I don't have to worry about or spend any time with! Thank goodness!" Makes me sad and frustrated.

We are in the process of pushing for DD to receive harder word study words (that some in the class already receive, so not special words just for DD) and I've gotten push back from the teacher which really surprises me.[/quote]

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