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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your daughter definitely needs to be checked for ADHD.  My husband and son both have it and they can hyperfocus on something that interests them.

And as crazy as some rules (like writing down how you solved a math problem) may sound, your daughter will have to learn to follow them if she is going to ever be successful in school.  [/quote]

OP here. My child does NOT have adhd. She does not hyperfocus on anything. The armchair diagnoses on this thread amaze me!

I had a chat with my dd's teacher this morning, and she agreed that dd is bored, and lamented the loss of gifted programs at the school.  She agreed that dd can read an interesting book as soon as she trudges through the required tasks. And, sadly, she agreed that this solution is the best she can do for dd, since she's not allowed to group kids by ability or allow them to do anything different than the other kids are doing!! How stupid is that??

In the end, I left feeling really badly for my dd's teacher (and for all teachers who are stuck with these inane curriculums at public schools). [b]DD's teacher is trying to do her best, but she's forced to teach what she's been given by the school, like it or not. This one size fits all education fits no one. And the teaching to the test has so little to do with educating the individual child, teaching her to think, offering her a variety of views of the world, inviting exploration and questioning -- all things a good education ought to be doing, especially in second grade while young minds are still developing. [/b]

Private schools are not all better, but at least they are not tied to this testing and these top-down directives that are ruining public schools. We looked at some private schools, but our current financial picture precludes private. The ones we looked at had a lot of innovation in their curriculums, and gave kids a lot more individual attention and choice. I don't like the exclusivity of some private schools, but for my child, a good private school would be a lot better than the unsatisfactory public she's in now. [/quote]

Are you hearing what you WANT to hear OP, or did the teacher really say that?

My daughter is in the highest reading group.  She's off the charts.  And while she's also in the highest math group, she still struggles a bit.  Teachers differentiate in public.

At her private, there was NO differentiation. We didn't know her reading or math level.  In fact, when we made the switch, her current teacher (first year of public for my daughter) said she was reading books way below her current level.

So if you accurately reported what you heard, then she's at fault. [/quote]

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