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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP I agree with you.  It seems like nobody wants to share info.

Unless your child is good at advertising his or her brains, he or she will likely get lumped into "average."

If you have a kid who loves to rattle off memorized facts your child is more likely get noticed and score well on a GBRS.  [b]Kids who find memorization somewhat boring, like spacial thinkers, have more fun exploring ideas.  But they don't often broadcast their thoughts.  So teachers can easily miss their smarts.[/b]
I know families who have hired tutors for their kids or sent their kids to additional math classes--not to help a child who is behind, but to get already good students ahead even further.  Kids who do those things are going to look "smarter" to teachers.  And they are likely going to score higher on a GBRS.

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I'm the parent who has the child falling between the cracks.  The bolded part above TOTALLY describes my child.  She hates memorization but is a very in-depth thinker and a spatial "genius"  (not quite genius but pretty darn bright).  We are also new this year and she is used to a smaller class environment.  Here, she doesn't get the opportunity to show her smarts and teh school environment is completely differnt.  At her old school, the teachers all noted how she took concepts and extended them.  Here, they have no interest in your child doing anything but spitting back the math facts or the spelling words --which she has a hard time with.  So I think they perceive her as very average.  She's also super nice, polite and well behaved, so she blends into the background.

I have a meeting with the AART this week.  I'm very curious to see the GBRS.[/quote]

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