Rock and a Hard Place

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Registered: 11-12-2003
Rock and a Hard Place
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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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Registered: 11-23-2003
Sun, 11-30-2003 - 8:05am
I have no idea why you don't see value in knowing where and how your child fits among their peers! The charts tell me a lot more than just my child's rank.
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Registered: 11-23-2003
Sun, 11-30-2003 - 8:08am
Kids learn to read when they learn to read. One of the reasons I was thinking that dd#2 wasn't gifted was that she didn't read (except by rote) early. Turns out when kids read has little to do with intelligence. It's just one of those things that clicks when it clicks and it clicks for most kids by age 6 1/2. A child who is an early reader can end up not too far ahead in 4th grade. They usually are a little but that is believed to be just due to having had extra practice so a late reader could, in theory, catch up to the early reader by practicing more.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Sun, 11-30-2003 - 8:38am
All well and good but completely irrelevant to ranking kindergarteners!

Gosh, my DS wasn't the first kid in his play group to walk. As long as he did learn to walk, I had thought it was totally irrelevant that there were other kids, both in the group and in the nation, who walked well before he did - and here it turns out if he had a teacher who had been on the ball enough to graph it out for silly ol' me, I would have found out I had better get him a Thighmaster or something so that he'd succeed . . . .

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Registered: 03-23-2003
Sun, 11-30-2003 - 8:43am

Fall behind whom?


What exactly do you mean by "dumbing down?" Seems to me if your child is learning how to interact socially with her peers that would be a good thing. Many highly intelligent children don't have that skill, and are pretty miserable because of it.

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Registered: 03-23-2003
Sun, 11-30-2003 - 8:52am

Just to address one thing...


When I was in first grade, I

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Registered: 03-23-2003
Sun, 11-30-2003 - 8:53am
A rebuttal is a rebuttal. A response is a response. You responded.
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Registered: 11-23-2003
Sun, 11-30-2003 - 9:04am
She will perform at the level of her peers when around her peers. For example, she learned to write her letters when she was 3 and never wrote any of them backwards until she saw her classmates writing them backwards. She tries to fit in and does so quite well. As to falling behind, I'm referring to falling behind where we'd expect her to be. If she's at the top of the class for this parent teacher conference and average at the next one, there would be reason for concern that she was not being challenged. I wish she did have peers at her level to gauge her against but she doesn't. Dd#1 did. She tracked with the upper group all along which made it easy to see if she was keeping pace. It will be a bit more of a challenge with dd#2.
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Registered: 11-23-2003
Sun, 11-30-2003 - 9:04am
No, I simply acknowledged that I had read the post and choose not to respond.
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Registered: 03-23-2003
Sun, 11-30-2003 - 9:54am

You think a child imitating other children is "dumbing down"?????


ROFLMAOPIP!!!!!!!!!!!!


OK, now I know not to bother with this debate any further.


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Registered: 03-23-2003
Sun, 11-30-2003 - 9:57am

I think you are confused about the word "respond".


Then again, you are the one who didn't see much value in being educated in the liberal arts.

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