Reply to Reading Level @ start of AAP

Forum Index » Advanced Academic Programs (AAP)

Reply to "Reading Level @ start of AAP"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child isn’t in AAP. She isn’t in a gifted program at all. I’m not lying. I’ve briefly posted about my dd before. She was independently tested by an outside team. Her teachers have always thrown up their arms. There has been nothing they can do. She is also ahead in math.

It’s true that the further removed I become from her early milestones the more remarkable they seem to me. I have other kids! She’s my oldest. But when she was doing these things I thought I was delusional. [/quote]

It's not that I doubt the existence of kids who are profoundly gifted.  I question your portrayal of your DD on this forum.  If she had a team of psychologists testing her at an early age and had teachers who found her so far beyond the curriculum that they had no idea how to even approach her, then there's no way you would imagine that there are tons of kids out there just like your DD.  If your DD is as gifted as you claim, you're being weirdly disingenuous about the whole thing. [b] The smartest kid in the grade is probably reading Harry Potter in 1st or K.  It wouldn't at all strike you as odd if your kid is sitting next to that kid, reading War and Peace or some other full-fledged adult novel?  I mean, really?[/b]  [/quote]

I don’t really know what you mean by the bolded. DD didn’t read an adult novel until 3rd grade I think.

She was at least 6 years ahead in reading at age 4 and she has remained that way. Her comprehension is extremely advanced and remarkable. I never said it wasn’t. I felt like I alluded to it enough when I described how she sat for hours at a time at barely two to listen to chapter books. We didn’t know it at the time. But if you’ve been around a lot of 2yos you learn that’s very abnormal! She has a high IQ, but how am I supposed to act? How are her teachers supposed to act? She’s just a kid. She goes to normal school. Her teachers were not about to give her a 6th grade curriculum so a good K curriculum was just as good as anything in between. We don’t have a gifted program so there isn’t any posturing to be had here. You all could learn to be a little more blasé if you ask me. [/quote]

So you don’t have a gifted program? Why are you on an AAP forum then? I don’t understand.[/quote]

And if her school system had a gifted program, would she be blase about her DD not being in it?[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics