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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From your description this sounds like it is more about emotion than facts. You feel that she was dumped, that she is ignored, that the teacher is just relieved she's an easy kid, that she is not recognized as special, and this is making you sad. But the only fact I heard is that you would like her to be in a higher reading group. So, without the sadness and frustration etc., ask the teacher how she was assessed to be in this reading group because you think she should be in it. [/quote]

I agree.

Also, I have one highly gifted and one advanced but not gifted.

My highly gifted kid spent much of early elementary on his own, until we moved here and was placed in AAP. He is a go with the flow kind of kid, so that combined with already mastering the curriculum made it easy for the teachers to leave him to hisown devices for most of the day.

My very smart kid is more of a firery personality. He gets lots of attention, lots of enrichment, lots of different teaching techniques. I think it is because he is more boisterous and the teachers are trying to keep him occupied and find what catches his interest to make it easier to teach the rest of the class.

Your daughter probably has a good sized group of academic peers in her level placement, and is probably and easy student to teach. [/quote]

OP here. I actually don't believe her reading and word study groups are her academic peers. There are only 3 other kids in her group and I know for a fact that two of them have private tutors and get pulled out for reading simply to scrape by. The same homework my DD sails through alone, these girls complete with a 1:1 private tutor. One girl was almost held back last year until her parents threw a fit and hired the summer tutor. These are NOT my daughters academic peers.

I did speak to the teacher (and last year's teacher too.) She claims there is some assessment (but not related to previous word study grades) that determines the level. I have yet to be told how the assessment works. Both teachers seem unwilling to deviate from what this all-knowing assessment tells them. (Yet this assessment is brief enough that they solo administer it individually to 25 kids!)[/quote]

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