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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My pet peeve is crazy parents who take over the one thread for teachers to vent and start a flame war over gifted issues.      [/quote

Agreed!

Hi there. I am the PP from WAY back who asked what a teacher would do on their own if such a rare gifted child were to appear in their class.  I have not posted since then. I would like to thank the teachers who responded.  And I apologize for sparking the derailment.

My question was meant to be relevant to the "pet peeves" of the teachers.  And it was meant for small children in early grades .   Teachers don't want to hear parents say how bright their child is and believe it or not, there are some parents that don't want to "say anything" to teachers or a new school to avoid being "labeled".   The hope being, all will be fine, the school chosen is hopefully the right match for the child and that the teachers and school will notice anything relevant and will contact the family if they feel the child needs anything.  In addition, they may contact the family to say what they can or cannot do for that child given their classroom environment.

So I was curious from the teacher side of things, if you encountered a 1 in 10 yrs child in you class and the parents had NOT come forward, what would you do? Anything? Again this is at very young grades.

Some teachers did already say what they can do to work with younger kids but nobody said whether they would tell the family anything. I am curious whether the pet peeve about families boasting is so large that a teacher might not want to tell the parents when they truly do find a child who really is an outlier.
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Possibly you should start a new thread with your question, so the teachers can get back to peeves.[/quote]

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