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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m sorry but I missed where you said what you were doing about this?

DS was like this when he was younger (3-5). He was precocious as well and an only child at the time so he received constant praise from us and other adults.

It was cute, until he started school and was known to correct teachers and get frustrated when classmates “took too long” to respond. We had to have a talk (or many) discussing how it wasn’t his place to lead the classroom, how it wasn’t the “Larlo show”, and that other children, and people in general, process information in different ways and different rates and that doesn’t make anyone better than anyone else.

We also had to inform him that he wouldn’t always necessarily be the brightest kid in class and as with most things in life being ahead of the pack requires consistency and work. He’s chilled out considerably since then but those were some obnoxious years and yes, nobody likes a know-it-all.[/quote]

Another one who most certainly wasn’t cute.  What could he have possibly corrected the teacher about in preschool?  Plus you have no idea who is the brightest in the class.

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Another anonymous blowhard [/quote]

? Seriously is there a notice somewhere in kindergarten stating who the brightest kid is in the class?  Because a lot of parents seem to have this information.    And I’m looking for an example of correcting a teacher.  Is it when the teacher misspeaks the kid has to comment?   I can’t figure that one out.   [/quote]

Since preschool my son's teacher's have always told us he is the brightest student in their class. He is in 4th now. He is extremely smart. IQ 99%. When your kid is bright, it is obvious to the teacher and parents. He is also socially awkward and not a great friend, and his intelligence is sometimes a barrier. But yes, there are parents who know their kid is the brightest.[/quote]

I wonder this too. I have had multiple people (at other schools, I think this is why they feel comfortable telling me this) tell me that their kid is the "brightest kid in the class." I can't imagine a teacher ever actually saying this, and also, two of these kids are in the same class.  :lol: I have to imagine this is a parent taking a one-off comment or standardized test scores and extrapolating. [/quote]

LOL I guess they could be telling multiple parents that! In my case, my son struggled with social and behavior issues and we had lots of meetings with teachers and every year even with different teachers and cohorts the teacher would tell us that our son was the brightest and was academically at the top of the class. And we saw it in the work he did and the test scores. I mean there are a lot of classes and a lot of schools so lots of opportunities for a kid to be the brightest and for that to be accurate. [/quote]

As a former teacher, I had a policy of telling this to any parent about whose child it was even slightly believable. Never once did I get called on the inconsistency by a parent. [/quote]

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