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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]DS is bored at school, he is in second grade[/b] and was accepted into AAP. He was in-pool but we answered the parent questionnaire and turned in work samples showing him build marble runs built from multiple toy pieces and using drums to bounce marbles from one section to another. We were interested in guaranteeing the advanced math option and level III services at the base school. We would like more rigor for him but we understand the concept of balance. He Participates in STEM based after school extras, robotics, coding, chess, and has logic books at home. He plays a sport every season and has some other physical activities he enjoys that he does. He asks to do these things. When he says he is not interested, he stops.

We don’t do any extra math tutoring or prep. He would do great if we but him in it, he has been flying through Khan with distance learning, but I don’t see the benefit of his being more bored at school by advancing him in math several grade levels. We have asked him if he wants to do extra math because he enjoys it when he plays math games at home but he says no.

Some parents demanding more rigor are people who have been pushing their kids ahead in math using Khan, Beast Academy, Kumon or similar programs. You choose to put your kid into those programs and advance them. Don’t think that they are extra special because you have added 5 hours or more of extra schooling so that they are ahead of their peers.

It is not a surprise that kids who have been tutored since they were in pre-k or kindergarten do great on the NNAT or CoGAT. It is not a surprise that my kid ho has been able to participate in extra curricular activities, has been read to every day, has been watching science and history shows on tv, and has access to books of all sorts did well on the NNAT and CogAT. It is not a surprise that kids with fewer opportunities do worse. Those tests are not really testing giftedness.

Your kid is no more gifted then mine. Your kid is better prepped then mine. And my kid was better prepped then the average kid at a Title 1 school.

Everyone can get off their high horses about how special their kid is. We won’t have a clue about who is really gifted and who isn’t for a while. And I don’t care if my kid slows your kid down in math as long as my kid is successfully completing the curriculum. If you have been sending your kid to tutoring programs for the last bunch of years, you created that gap. It has nothing to do with nayive intelligence. [/quote]

There is a big jump up between 2nd and 3rd grade for all students.  Most kids are bored in 2nd grade.

You can't judge your base school or center school by 2nd grade at all.  [/quote]

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