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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I will say---the snotty comments about the 'high groups' were perpetuated in our elementary school by parents.  The kids overhear and repeat it.  It gets worse over time.

The parents begin lobbying in K to make sure their kid is in the high group. Once in, they stay there throughout elementary even when their scores/grades/SOLs and CoGats are lower than other kids whose parents did not lobby for the high group at [b]five years old[/b].

My kids went through this in the early years with the snotty, busy-body kids always trying to see who got an 'A' on a test and who made the Special list, etc.  It placed undue and insane pressure on kids in the early years when they should not even be worrying about any of this.  My kids were just talking about this at pick-up and I asked how do the kids know everyone else's grades in the class when it's none of their business...they go around and peek was the answer.

I kept my kid out of that snot group as much as I could---but with straight As and perfect SOLs/extremely high CoGats they were required to place child there in 4th/5th.  Guess what---those kids did nothing to contribute to the group projects in class either. They are used to mommy and daddy doing everything for them.

The bad behavior kids were all in these groups because they parents insisted their hyperactivity was  due to their giftedness.  These same parents gossip about class placement, etc.  Losers.

You can see it by the way they attacked OP and ridiculed her for having a child not in a top KINDERGARTNEN group---wtf?!?!!!!!  Frickin' insane tiger moms.[/quote]

And it is always the 'kids will be kids' and 'grow a backbone poster' that have the snottiest, most obnoxious children.  The ones that are rude to teachers as well.   [/quote]

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