Re: Advice please!
Posted by el ed on 10/08/08
If your daughter is happy and comfortable in different aged
classes part of the time, then I think things are going ok.
When I was in ele. school the gen. educational thinking was
that if a child tested way above grade level, just have the
student skip a grade or two. If a child is in the genius
range skipping might be the best. (Hubby and I were not in
this intellectual group or in the same school system)
When this was suggested to my mother, who was not an educator,
she asked me if I would like this. It did not appeal to me.
So, she told the school that I was happy where I was and had
lots of friends in my class. There were other good students
in the class, so the competition was there. I was happy and
challenged and kept my good friends, who did not mind that I
made really good grades.
My husband's situation was handled differently. His dad was a
reacher/principal and bought into the current education
"flavor of the time", which was to skip whole grades.
Hubby was not large at all for his age and he also became the
youngest(by quite a lot) member of the class he was skipped
to. He did not have the chance to learn the skills in the
grade he skipped. Making good grades was not cool in the new
class. It was not easy to fit in, but he got along ok and
eventually made friends, but he realized later that this may
not have been the best move for him. Graduating from HS at
barely 16 was not a good event for him.
I graduated as Valedictorian of my class, but my husband
didn't work up to his potential, partly because educational
things were not so important for most of the boys in his new
class.
The most important thing to me(and my mom and dad)
anyway, was to be where I fitted in and was comfortable and
was happy.
Just my thoughts.
On 10/05/08, What to do... wrote:
> Okay, I'll admit it...I'm a parent who needs advice. My
> daughter is in second grade. She is mature compared to the
> other children in her class--she is a Fall baby, the
> majority of the kids in her class are Spring babies. This
> is one factor why she is mature but she is in other areas of
> her life too--very responsible, etc. Her teacher is pushing
> to have her advance a grade. She was tested last year (end
> of first grade) using the Stanford Achievement Test. In all
> areas, she scored way above her grade level--Total reading
> score, 5.9 grade equivalent; Math 3.0 grade equivalent;
> Spelling, 4.4; Language, 10.6; etc. and Complete Battery,
> 4.97. What would you suggest to do with a student like
> this? Right now, they have her going to a 6th grade
> reading/language class, 4th grade spelling...She attends a
> small private school where moving into different classrooms
> for different subjects is easy to do..
>
> Any advice would be wonderful!
> Thanks in advance!
Posts on this thread, including this one
- Advice please!, 10/05/08, by What to do....
- Re: Advice please!, 10/06/08, by Kevin.
- Re: Advice please!, 10/07/08, by GT Teacher.
- Re: Advice please!, 10/08/08, by el ed.
- Re: Advice please!, 10/08/08, by Nancye.
- Re: Advice please!, 10/08/08, by What to do....
- Re: Advice please!, 10/08/08, by two cents.
- Re: Advice please!, 10/09/08, by Juliana.
- Re: Advice please!, 10/10/08, by Nancye.
- Re: Advice please!, 10/21/08, by LbP.
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