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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Okay, I can't take you too seriously because I have no idea if you know what you're talking about, or if you are even serious. But I thought there were a good number of gifted students who don't perform well at school (out of lack of interest, boredom, behavioral issues, whatever). I have a child who has been way above grade level and under-challenged for the first four years of school. She did not get ES grades this year so far. I truly don't know if she still ranks as "gifted" (though to me she is). But I am not going to believe that she's not just because she didn't get ES on his report card. She might be gifted and underperforming. She might be gifted and be in a pool of students with an abundance of more gifted kids (which seems close to true). She might be a quiet reticent student who just doesn't show her teacher what she knows. (this is definitely true.) She might have a teacher who doesn't "get" her. (have no idea of this is true, but am leaning towards thinking she gets her okay) In any case, I am sure you cannot say that all the gifted kids will have straight ES grades.[/quote]

I agree with this. I don't think my kid is gifted but under the new system she is definitely underperforming in areas where she doesn't have interest. She gets straight Ps in these areas but since its not clear how you get an ES and the kids are told not to expect ES grades, she happily does the bare minimum. She has a very high IQ but she is not a motivated student. She gets ES grades in the areas where she has very high interest but the other areas to her are boring and easy. Last year, with the N, S and O..O was a way to motivate bright students to put forward effort and dig deeper into subjects that they are not as compelled to put forth effort. Her teacher and I would push her to do the work to get an O in these area because she could perform at this level with a little effort.  [/quote]

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