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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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PumpkinAngel
Did you really need to see a chart of the class to know she was more advanced than the rest or did you know?
What example is the teacher setting by giving your daughter more work and expecting less of the rest of the class?
PumpkinAngel
I do believe there are kids of such amazing giftedness that they could really do something like that. But they are so rare that they get magazine articles written about them.
You are right!
PumpkinAngel
But why do you need to compare to other kindergartners to know that she is doing well or not?
PumpkinAngel
And BTW, doesn't it alarm you that daycare is where these kids are getting exposed to books? Since you have been told point blank that the kids of SAHMs aren't familiar with books and the dc kids are, you have jumped to the conclusion that the SAHMs aren't reading to their kids. Fair enough. But are you then jumping to the conclusion that the WOHMs are reading at home??? How do you know that dc isn't the only place where they encounter a book? Do you live in some peculiar neighborhood where all the WOHMs value reading but none of the SAHMs do? Or do you live in a (less demographically bizarre) neighborhood where FEW people value reading at all, but at least the dc kids encounter books in dc? If the latter, the advantage the dc kids will disappear once they leave daycare and get older. They will still be in homes where books are something encountered only in an institutional setting (first dc, then school) and their exposure to books will be exactly the same as the kids of SAHMs. They'll read what they are assigned and nothing more.
Meanwhile your book-loving (right??) dd will have to choose between the class nerd/lonely literate person and fitting in. You've already said that she's prone to choosing fitting in. So leave. Now. Before she realizes that being at the top of that chart is so lonely that she voluntarily climbs down off the perch to be with friends.
But's its not accurate.
PumpkinAngel
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