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: 07-02-2003
Fri, 11-28-2003 - 7:12pm
There are far more creative ways to challenge a bright child than singling her out. If she is aware, as you said she is, that the teacher expects more from her than others THAT is just plain STUPID.
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Registered: 07-02-2003
Fri, 11-28-2003 - 7:14pm
How come you haven't answered the question as to why she felt a need to reassure you that dc kids were not the ones struggling when your dd was at the very top of the chart?
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Registered: 07-02-2003
Fri, 11-28-2003 - 7:17pm
Oh brother! Until you saw your dd who adds and subtracts double digit numbers, reads and writes fluently and so aware of her advanced skills that she *dummys down*, compared on a graph, you didn't realize that she was that far ahead of the children of the lazy drunken SAHMs who had never seen a printed word? Jeez, you should pay more attention.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 11-28-2003 - 8:48pm
Honestly. Same here. And envy that some other kid is walking before yours? How dumb is THAT? You know what I felt for people whose kids were the ones walking at 9-10 mos.? PITY. Because their kid would be able to get into things they shouldn't be able to FAR earlier than mine, LOL! I had it much easier!

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Registered: 08-29-2002
Sat, 11-29-2003 - 1:32am
Well, ds started reading Harry Potter when he was 5 and I couldn't believe it either so I made him read some out loud and quizzed him a bit on the plot to make sure he was really understanding what he was reading. He wasn't getting everything, but he understood most of what he was reading. He started reading it when he was 5 after almost a year of begging me to let him reading and me refusing. It does happen....


Laura

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Sat, 11-29-2003 - 5:38am
I'm glad you feel that way. Since it means that it is UTTERLY IRRELEVENT (according to this particular post) who went to dc and who didn't, WRT literacy. So why were you crowing about it in other posts?
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Sat, 11-29-2003 - 6:10am
LOL..nice try...oh, no, wait, no it wasn't. If the teacher cared about "helping" she wouldn't be telling parents of the kids allegedly doing well which kids are doing poorly. She'd be telling the parents of the children doing poorly. How does telling YOU which kids perform worse than your child help your child?

What a complete...and obvious....crock.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Sat, 11-29-2003 - 9:23am

Reading skills encompass many critical areas.

SUS

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Sat, 11-29-2003 - 10:20am

But those ARE useful benchmarks (or they might be depending on the age of the children).

SUS

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Sat, 11-29-2003 - 10:47am

You stated....


PumpkinAngel

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