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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you work? I would really look into homeschooling. I am a school psychologist and see kids like your dd all the time. Academically advanced kids in low performing schools really suffer. There aren't enough of them for a teacher to form a group to differentiate instruction. If your daughter is never challenged she will never learn how to work hard when she is finally given work at her level in honors classes in middle school and high school. [/quote]

NP, but thank you.  Thank you.

I was the same and it does violence to a child's agency to be held back and down - not just sometimes, but all of the time.  In the real world, if you navigate well, you end up working with colleagues of similar ability.  "Learning" at the same speed regardless of ability is torture for the kid and a gross systemic oversight.

OP - don't listen to the chorus of average-at-best.  Can you homeschool?  Is there a voucher program?  Have you really investigated financial aid?[/quote]

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