Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New profile posts
Latest activity
Internet Search
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Forums
General Discussions
The Watercooler
Yet Another difficult child?? LOL
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 594473" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>Nichole has my sympathy because when you have a gifted child the schools can be very difficult to deal with. They usually don't know what to do with them! They have all kinds of programs and interventions for the kids with problems but not many for the little smarty-pants kids! They keep trying to fit them in to that "box" - it just doesn't work and their efforts become counter-productive, frustrating for both the kids and the teachers. </p><p></p><p>I went through exactly the same thing when my son started school. He was both reading and writing well when he was about four, long before he started kindergarten. It didn't help that with his October birthday, he was almost six when he started and one of the oldest in his class. They started with the very simple basics and he kept telling the teacher that he already knew that! She didn't believe him when he told her that he could read ...until she saw him reading aloud all the names of the other kids in the class from a chart she had on the wall! She admitted to me that she didn't know what to do with him because academically he already knew everything they are supposed to learn in kindergarten. He was frustrated and bored and for the rest of the school year the teacher used him as a miniature classroom aide. In first grade it got worse when they seriously got in to reading. At home he was reading (<u>VERY</u> carefully selected) Stephen King short stories and in school they were doing the modern version of "See Spot Run"! He was never a disciplinary problem but he got so insulted, frustrated and mad at the teacher that he blew up at her, letting her know that this was a "baby book" and he was NOT reading it! When everybody else was in their reading groups, he was in a group that consisted of just him. It didn't help at all that the school librarian was very rigid in her thinking. She had all the books shelved by grade level and refused to let any child check out books that were above their grade level, no matter how well they could read. We solved that one by talking the public library in to letting him have his own card. We'd take him every Saturday morning and turn him loose in there and he'd pick out books on whatever interested him ... it might be Ancient Egypt or outer space or dinosaurs, whatever he wanted and he was a happy kid! He's 32 now and the librarian who just recently retired still remembers him as that skinny little blond boy who came in every Saturday and left with an armload of books and a big smile on his face! </p><p></p><p>Nichole may want to check in to this too but I never knew that programs for "special education" also include provisions for gifted kids! Our program here doesn't start until second grade and he was tested and accepted in to the program. He actually qualified for an IEP because "the standard school curriculum did not meet his individual educational needs". The school loved it because the more "Special Education"kids they had, the more State funding they received. Not that the program at his school was that great. It was one "enrichment" class a day, with a small group of kids, most of them a lot older than he was, and it was conducted during recess time when the other kids got to go out and play. He was a normal, healthy, active little boy who needed to go out and blow off steam with his friends. He hated it, begged to drop out of the program, and since he was getting nothing out of it, I let him. </p><p></p><p>And I honestly think the stubborness goes along with it. "Stubborn" should have been his middle name! Despite his high IQ, he never was the slightest little bit academically inclined. If he was interested in a subject he would just jump in with both feet and really get in to it. But he had no patience at all for things that bored him or things he thought he'd never use, like higher math or some things in English. And if he didn't like the teacher, you might as well forget it! That stubborness would come out, he'd dig in his heels, and that would be it! Nichole is in for an interesting but very worthwhile ride!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 594473, member: 1883"] Nichole has my sympathy because when you have a gifted child the schools can be very difficult to deal with. They usually don't know what to do with them! They have all kinds of programs and interventions for the kids with problems but not many for the little smarty-pants kids! They keep trying to fit them in to that "box" - it just doesn't work and their efforts become counter-productive, frustrating for both the kids and the teachers. I went through exactly the same thing when my son started school. He was both reading and writing well when he was about four, long before he started kindergarten. It didn't help that with his October birthday, he was almost six when he started and one of the oldest in his class. They started with the very simple basics and he kept telling the teacher that he already knew that! She didn't believe him when he told her that he could read ...until she saw him reading aloud all the names of the other kids in the class from a chart she had on the wall! She admitted to me that she didn't know what to do with him because academically he already knew everything they are supposed to learn in kindergarten. He was frustrated and bored and for the rest of the school year the teacher used him as a miniature classroom aide. In first grade it got worse when they seriously got in to reading. At home he was reading ([U]VERY[/U] carefully selected) Stephen King short stories and in school they were doing the modern version of "See Spot Run"! He was never a disciplinary problem but he got so insulted, frustrated and mad at the teacher that he blew up at her, letting her know that this was a "baby book" and he was NOT reading it! When everybody else was in their reading groups, he was in a group that consisted of just him. It didn't help at all that the school librarian was very rigid in her thinking. She had all the books shelved by grade level and refused to let any child check out books that were above their grade level, no matter how well they could read. We solved that one by talking the public library in to letting him have his own card. We'd take him every Saturday morning and turn him loose in there and he'd pick out books on whatever interested him ... it might be Ancient Egypt or outer space or dinosaurs, whatever he wanted and he was a happy kid! He's 32 now and the librarian who just recently retired still remembers him as that skinny little blond boy who came in every Saturday and left with an armload of books and a big smile on his face! Nichole may want to check in to this too but I never knew that programs for "special education" also include provisions for gifted kids! Our program here doesn't start until second grade and he was tested and accepted in to the program. He actually qualified for an IEP because "the standard school curriculum did not meet his individual educational needs". The school loved it because the more "Special Education"kids they had, the more State funding they received. Not that the program at his school was that great. It was one "enrichment" class a day, with a small group of kids, most of them a lot older than he was, and it was conducted during recess time when the other kids got to go out and play. He was a normal, healthy, active little boy who needed to go out and blow off steam with his friends. He hated it, begged to drop out of the program, and since he was getting nothing out of it, I let him. And I honestly think the stubborness goes along with it. "Stubborn" should have been his middle name! Despite his high IQ, he never was the slightest little bit academically inclined. If he was interested in a subject he would just jump in with both feet and really get in to it. But he had no patience at all for things that bored him or things he thought he'd never use, like higher math or some things in English. And if he didn't like the teacher, you might as well forget it! That stubborness would come out, he'd dig in his heels, and that would be it! Nichole is in for an interesting but very worthwhile ride! [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
General Discussions
The Watercooler
Yet Another difficult child?? LOL
Top