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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]pp here - one teacher called DD an intrinsic learner. We don't have to provide any type of help or motivation for her to learn new concepts. DC taught herself to read, we provided books like every parent, but within about 2 weeks when she was 3 we noticed she started fluently reading bob books, so we gave her level 1 books and she goes through books like water. Read the magic treehouse series on her own accord the summer after K. Math is the same way.

The aap program is not challenging for her from what I can see. HW gets done in after school care and I look at it but there is rarely ever a problem wrong. I've tried to offer help to study for tests but she just says - we went over it in class so I'm good - and rarely gets a wrong answer on a test. She does a lot of "learning" on her own outside of school.

Why is it so hard to believe that she did so well on the tests but didn't test prep?[/quote]

Sounds like DD is ready for MIT.  No need for hard work and prep.  There are no challenges remaining.  Perhaps even MIT will not challenge her.  What to do?  Just keep prepping...read voraciously.[/quote]

Your idiotic sarcasm aside, that's the issue.  There are plenty of challenges ahead but she's not getting them in the current construct of the AAP program.  Just like most parents I just want my kids to be challenged appropriately in school and keep the love of learning.

I want my DD in class with other kids like her because it's healthy for her to know there are other people like her and to have other kids challenge her.  At the base school, she was the weird one when she was trying to discuss topics that aren't of interest to most of her peers.  It's hard to see your kid come home many days saying that she knows she's weird and is being called names or ostracized because she's different.

For those of you who are so flippant about this subject, I wish you would realize that this is a real issue for some parents with kids that have a very high IQ.  This is not about bragging.  Simply because you think that illustrates how ignorant you are of the realities of kids and parents of kids like this.  Somedays I really wish she was a little more "normal" like her sibling.  Trust me life is a lot more rainbows and unicorns for these kids.  
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