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Wow, did I strike a nerve.  There is a poster on this thread.  Maybe it is the OP?  Maybe it is you?  This poster is saying that her "bright" DD was very advanced and was not bored in school THEREFORE no child SHOULD EVER BE BORED IN SCHOOL because of mismatched academic level.  This person is the twit.  Kids have different personalities, and there are kids that are brighter than her DD.  I am not sure why you are starting a pissing contest.  I was NMSF and was not identified as gifted in school.  DH was identified gifted.  DD is **not yet** in K and reading two or three chapter books a day at 4.5.  She is sitting next to me reading Ribsy right now.  She is not only a fluent reader, she reads a lot and just loves it.  Why do I say this?  Because, you do not know who you are talking to, and maybe I do have a DD who is smarter than your kids.  You just don't know, so why do you pretend to.

My only real problem is that DD truly thinks school is supposed to challenge her academically in Kindergarten.  Maybe it is because a lot of the stories she reads herself are of second graders going to school.  I don't know.  I actually think she will be fine.  I am thankful that she will be one of the youngest in her grade and the social scene will challenge her enough.  But, if she has problems in kindergarten because she can already read fluently and add and subtract I am not going to ignore them. [/quote]

Good grief you sound insufferable.  You've convinced yourself that it's just one person telling you that brilliant kids aren't necessarily bored in school, when in fact it's several of us writing things like "another poster here...." Your DD hasn't even started K, for Pete's sake, so you're not exactly in a good position to lecture the rest of us on the martyrdom of gifted kids. Apparently you've also convinced yourself that the experiences of other posters are somehow invalid because Snowflake is smarter than their kids (despite the numerous other posters telling you their kids read chapter books in K or before), or it's really only *one* poster, or we're just jealous of you and Snowflake ("I struck a nerve").

Ugh.

It's parents like you who give gifted kids and gifted programs a bad name. The moms who wail, "look at me, it's so hard to be the parent of a gifted kid" (apply hand to forehead). Why do I care? Well, I'm certain you'll never believe this, but my kids are pretty smart and rocking the magnet programs -- yeah, never mind, no kid could be as brilliant as yours and I'm probably "pretending" as you say. In any case, I get concerned when self-absorbed parents generate (deserved) hostility to magnet programs and gifted kids.[/quote]

It's also highly presumptuous of this pp that her own child is "gifted" anyway. Has there been testing yet? Is she going to appeal when the numbers aren't there?[/quote]

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