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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyway... back on track here.  Isn't it sort of pretentious for a parent-- only 2 weeks into school -- to declare that her daughter will be bored for all of K?  I think some people are really delusional about their own children's abilities.

Yes, there are some examples of true genius.  But more rare than we think.[/quote]

It's not pretentious. It's just silly. Ideally[b] it's a misconception that will correct itself with time[/b].[/quote]

Or, you know, not.  My son (the one who suggested different teaching techniques to his teacher) became more and more disengaged as the school year went on.  By spring, it was awful, and he was incredibly depressed and anxious.  A FIVE YEAR OLD, depressed over how awful school is.  I promise you it wasn't "silly" or a "misconception" that corrected itself over time.  On the contrary, the longer he was in that environment, the more he exhausted his coping resources.

Moving on to first grade, we thought he had a teacher who understood was supposed to understand gifted kids.  Nope, not at all.  Here was her take on math, in particular: because my son was not completing the base work, he was not ready for more complicated work.  The base work was completing a number roll - writing the numbers 1 - 1000 on ten sheets of grid paper.  The theory was that this taught number relationships - revealed the great mystery that 29 is in the same column as 19, that kind of thing - and thus was an essential building block to the first grade experience.  My kid just could not bring himself to complete this thing.  It finally got sent home, and I implored him to complete it.  He'd sit at the table, holding his pencil, write a few numbers, and just zone out.  It was misery.  What finally worked for him?  Turning it into something that required thought.  "Fill in the square that is nine more.  Now a square that is two tens more.  Now three squares that are minus three from there."  When we told the teacher that engaging him at a higher level got him back "into" the work, she was VERY unhappy with us, because that wasn't the assignment.  The assignment was for my child to write, in order, the numbers 1-1000 on ten sheets of grid paper.  Apparently we totally ruined it when we gave him a way to make it interesting and therefore not paralyze him with boredom.   [/quote]

My kid is good at math, but I wouldn't say gifted, and that assignment would have bored him to death as well.  Although your "fix" would have frustrated him.  [/quote]

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