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Rock and a Hard Place
| Thu, 11-20-2003 - 10:45am |
There's something on this board that has been bothering me, and I hope I can articulate it.
| Thu, 11-20-2003 - 10:45am |
There's something on this board that has been bothering me, and I hope I can articulate it.
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Maybe why this whole thread bugs me so much, is the fact my kids do attend a
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She'll be tested next summer to deicide if she's just a fast starter or gifted though watching her current intellectual spurt I think we know the answer to that one. I really didn't expect her to progress much this year because she already knows what she needs to know for 1st grade and kindy isn't going to be too challenging for a child who already knows what she needs to know to go on but she's progressing anyway in spite of no one really pushing her. I have, deliberately, not pushed her because she was already ahead of her peers but she seems to be separating herself out, again (when she was 3, they moved her up a year in dc because she "had nothing in common with the kids her age". I'm starting to think we're going to see that happen again.). If I had to call it now, I'd say gifted with a distinct learning pattern of a period of accelerated learning followed by a period of honing skills. For the past year+ all she'd really done was practice what she already knew. Now it's all new stuff all the old stuff is "baby stuff".
Not saying it isn't "there"....but from our experiance (as in our district) it is not the "main" or even the third aspect of kinder.
Ok, no. I don't see why you'd need to be assured that dc was not an issue. Was she just patting you on the back for putting your dd in daycare and thereby insuring she'd be exposed to books? Ha! You should be insulted since it holds the assumption that DAYCARE is where kids are exposed to books and so dc kids have nothing to worry about since the inadequacies of their functionally illiterate parents will be made up for by dc providers. (Ok, maybe not THAT harsh, but still, it sounds like she's a little TOO tickled pink that some kids are in dc, as though it's their best shot and book exposure.)
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