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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not sure where these parents have their preschoolers, but I'm also sick of the "my child is bored in kindergarten" postings. As if all children who start out in K will forever be bored for the rest of their lives and no other children will ever catch up to them. One parent made such a fuss near us that they ended up having to leave the school after it was determined that little Jonny was super high in math, but couldn't even write a sentence in 1st grade whereas most of the other kids from play based schools had surpassed him in this regard. We did play based and Montessori for our kids and there were positives and negatives to both. Seriously comparing two great preschools, I didn't see that one was better than the other in terms of the whole child. Just different and they emphasized different things. Yes, Montessori is known to be more academic, so I don't get why these parents complain when they put their child in public school. I want to tell them, "feel free to enroll your kid in a private elementary Montessori." I do wish parents would do searches on this subject before posting about their bored kindergartener or 1st grader 2 months into a new school. There must be a hundred "My kid is bored in K" postings both here and on the individual state public school forums.[/quote]

[u][b]Truly gifted kids don't get bored.[/[/b][/u]quote]

+1 but you'll get flammed for this.[/quote]

Only because you are both wrong. Go over to the davidson academy forums to see the stories of the profoundly gifted kids. Some of them are truly gifted and bored in the wrong learning environment. [/quote]

Right - but that is for the profoundly gifted.  Not the run of the mill advanced (gifted) DCUM kid.[/quote]

I'm sorry, but that is idiotic.  Yes, my kid gets bored in school.  Is it because he's super extra gifted?  Well, no.  But he is smart and capable of quickly doing his assigned work.  When he finishes, he is allowed to do exactly one thing-free draw.  The kid hates drawing.  With a passion.  If his teacher would unbend enough to allow him to read a book instead he would never be bored.  "Only boring people are bored" only applies when a person has at least some autonomy in choosing their activites.  Within his classroom, my 1st grader has virtually none.

And yes, in Montessori preschool he didn't get bored because he didn't have to wait on the other kids.  He did his work and moved on to the next thing.  So yeah, I do wish I could put him back in that environment.  If only money grew on trees, I would.

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My kids are both advanced (at least a year each) in every core subject and neither has ever reported he/she is bored.  Sorry - I think this is ridiculous.  It isn't as if your child is drawing 6 hours/day.  If he has pencil and paper - he could certainly write, do math, etc.[/quote]

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