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Is J gifted (and should I give up)?
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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 534795" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Yes, well, J certainly isn't "traditional". And he's certainly not in the optimum environment for him, school-wise, though the small size is very good for him, of course. </p><p>His teacher has me baffled. I think she is actually expert at seeming to say the right things to me and actually behaving in a quite different way with him... the things he has let slip about the way she talks to him/them are kind of chilling, sometimes, and yet to me she gives the appearance of being a liberal, understanding woman. When I picked him up after school this evening he was basically hysterical, screaming and shouting about her having scolded and punished him all day... and, interestingly, at one point he said something along the lines of "You don't realise! She says one thing to you and does different things when you are not there". Very perceptive because obviously I haven't talked about this stuff to him. He will have a different teacher in September, who is younger, more relaxed and smiley, but it will still be more of the same, really. And I don't suppose the narrow, repetitive, dry curriculum will really suit him. I would imagine that Montessori or Waldorf would be much better. But... there is the whole problem of transition to take into account. I suppose... it now being so late, I will stay here for at least the next year and see how that goes, knowing that change is always possible if it turns out to be not good. </p><p>I do think J is daily a square peg being forced into a round hole.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 534795, member: 11227"] Yes, well, J certainly isn't "traditional". And he's certainly not in the optimum environment for him, school-wise, though the small size is very good for him, of course. His teacher has me baffled. I think she is actually expert at seeming to say the right things to me and actually behaving in a quite different way with him... the things he has let slip about the way she talks to him/them are kind of chilling, sometimes, and yet to me she gives the appearance of being a liberal, understanding woman. When I picked him up after school this evening he was basically hysterical, screaming and shouting about her having scolded and punished him all day... and, interestingly, at one point he said something along the lines of "You don't realise! She says one thing to you and does different things when you are not there". Very perceptive because obviously I haven't talked about this stuff to him. He will have a different teacher in September, who is younger, more relaxed and smiley, but it will still be more of the same, really. And I don't suppose the narrow, repetitive, dry curriculum will really suit him. I would imagine that Montessori or Waldorf would be much better. But... there is the whole problem of transition to take into account. I suppose... it now being so late, I will stay here for at least the next year and see how that goes, knowing that change is always possible if it turns out to be not good. I do think J is daily a square peg being forced into a round hole. [/QUOTE]
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