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I was pushed ahead a grade, and didn't have many issues in elementary school, until we moved in the middle of 5th grade. Had to deal with a whole new set of pe
by mgkimsal 10y ago
I was pushed ahead a grade, and didn't have many issues in elementary school, until we moved in the middle of 5th grade. Had to deal with a whole new set of people who I'd not grown up with, and that then carried on to middle and high school. No doubt the adolescent period would have been more difficult had I stayed in the original school, but I think it would have had less contributing factor.
I did occasionally get in to some 'trouble' with 'peers' (not really my peers, but others in the school) being 'advanced'.
Example: 4th grade - teacher gets sick - our class is split in to 2 to go sit with 5th grade classes for the last 2 hours of school. "just sit and read". Fine... but the 5th grade teacher was covering math lessons, and was asking questions - "who knows ... (fill in the blank)?". Silence in the room, except for me raising my hand. "I know!" She was thinking I wanted to leave the room, and kept ignoring me, until I spoke the answer. Pissed off the other 9-11 year old kids having a 8 year old answer their math questions (it was something to do with fractions).
I got a scratch-n-sniff pine tree sticker for my answer, and was told to keep reading my book and not disturb the class any more...
Still had that sticker until a few years ago (it didn't smell any more).