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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your child is in first grade... He is still coloring and singing songs in school. Check back come later in elementary school.[/quote]

That's all true - but you don't think there are kids who are advanced at this age?  And parents who make sure you know about it?   Its easy to feel like you are failing somehow these days if your kid isn't reading 10 levels ahead.....  [/quote]

True but unless the kid is truly exceptional, first grade performance does not necessarily predict the future. I was a lousy student in first grade. My parents started tutoring me in math because I was falling behind. I was almost held back a grade. By eighth grade I was a good but not great student. After I turned 14 my brain clicked into gear and I was a stellar high school student, valedictorian, went to HYP undergrad and law school, yadda yadda. No one could have predicted that in first grade.

And ... I went to school with plenty of kids who were not academic superstars but who were just really nice kids and I'm sure are doing great today by whatever metric you use. They are probably happier than a lot of the so-called gifted students. (I was not even labeled gifted, by the way, since I did not start scoring well on tests until close to high school.)[/quote]

For my brother it was college.  He barely made it to the big state u, but once there, straight As.  Ivy league law  and now a career that cowers me by a mile, though I won all the academic accolades growing up (I'm fine and happy and certainly don't want to work 90- hour weeks though woudl love to make a tenth of his salary)[/quote]

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