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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've been a teacher in DCPS for 15 years. I teach at the JKLM (this is for the racists out there who believe only smart kids exist at a JKLM). I've taught lots of bright kids. Kids reading several levels above grade expectation; can do "challenging math", were probably early talkers as infants and have great vocabulary. Out of all of those students, I've had exactly one truly gifted student- the kind of kid you remember 13 years later. Could beat adults in chess and was a classical pianist at the age of 5. Could decode any college level text I put in front of him. The parents didn't worry about challenging him academically- they wanted him to have a normal childhood and to have friends his age. The point in mentioning this kid? Every year I get parents who want to talk about their exceptional child because the kid can read Harry Potter in 1st grade and are bored with Zearn. If your child is freakishly exceptional- the teacher will say something about it like suggest testing (RARELY HAPPENS- again, one kid in my entire career). Also, most parents who think their kid is exceptional don't realize their child has other deficits- usually social/emotional stuff .[/quote] NP. Your example is nice, and your point is well taken, that kids with an FSIQ of 130 might not be 'that' kind of gifted, but those kids DO need that their parents worry about challenging them academically, more so than the chess genius example you described. They need to keep learning, and not learn to be bored in class. Other than wishing those parents would realize their kid who reads Harry Potter in 1st and is bored with Zearn isn't a truly gifted child, do you give them reading and math at a level they will benefit from, or do you just shrug that they'll be fine? If there truly are that many kids reading HP in 1st, why don't you teach those kids at their level, instead of insisting on picture books with 10 words a page, and some more Zearn, until they check out? I hear of differentiation, I have heard teachers say "differentiation is what we do" year after year, but on the ground, what they do is shutting up the parents, and not differentiating anything. [/quote] NP. Why are parents giving HP to their 1st grader? Why the need to rush things? They only have so many days when they will read picture books and the rest of their whole tween-teen years when they can read HP. I think parents are losing the chance to foster kids' imagination by skipping over "easier" books. So many people I know boast about how their kids zoom through math workbooks ahead of their grade. Why do that? If they are willing to do the work, why don't you give your kids depth of knowledge and teach them logic or some such other math subject? I think parents who think their kids are gifted because they read or do math 2 grades above their current class are bonkers. Like PP said, a teacher will contact you if there truly is something going on. [/quote] I absolutely agree with this. Kids who are pushed this way in early elementary often end up rebelling later in life. [/quote] Some kids just really like to read without being pushed. If you have older cousins you will get hand-me-down books and your kids will naturally take an interest in their cousins' possessions.[/quote]
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