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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our kindergarten teacher..."hey!  your kid is really good at math!  To be clear, I'm going to give him extra grade level work, not above grade level work."

Us: "Ok." [/quote]

What school was this? Why would they not want kids to advance?[/quote]

APS does not have a great gifted set up. I have talked to tons of parents at many schools and it's probably the one thing they all agree on. It's a mixture of: "I don't understand the gifted program, but I know it's not good". Supposedly the teacher can group kids by where they are and assign them more challenging problems that still center around the same concept. For example, if they are reviewing fractions, then the kids who are further ahead will do more fraction problems. But they will not teach anything outside the curriculum. So if your child has mastered fractions, but that's what's on the curriculum, then fractions it is. It almost sounds like busy work to me. The teacher in our Parent Teacher meeting said as much to us this year - your child will not learn any material. They know it, they will review it, but I am not allowed to teach them more than what they already know. [/quote]

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