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I'm glad your school did that. My mom had to fight against my elementary school because they wanted to keep me back a year in kindergarten because I wasn't matu

I'm glad your school did that. My mom had to fight against my elementary school because they wanted to keep me back a year in kindergarten because I wasn't mature enough. Likely, I was just bored. I went in to school reading and could do basic arithmetic already (even knew some basic multiplication), but they wanted to keep me back. Also happened going into middle school when I tested out of prealgebra (the accelerated math class they offered) but the new principal wanted to keep everyone the same. Thankfully I had good elementary school teachers through 3rd grade who recognized this and gave me challenging stuff instead (never made me read what the other kids read, harder msthh practice sheets, etc).

lowercased 5y ago
FWIW, my folks and some other parents pushed and pushed for 'something' extra... and.. we got little extra 'gifted' exercises (a few thursday afternoons with a doctor talking about anatomy stuff, etc). The principal kept juggling stuff, and before 5th grade started for me, he'd reached some deal to have a more extensive 'gifted program' for the school. Then he died, a month before it was to start. It seemed to fall apart in the aftermath of that. Not because of that, but... we did move - about 10 miles north, and were in a different school area. It was the same county - but there relatively extensive gifted programs, and I was slipped in in my first week there. Same county, just 'richer' (and... it wasn't 'rich' so much as where we'd been living just 10 miles to the south was on the decline). I was bored a lot too, even after being pushed ahead. I was bored until... I was behind. Around grade 11, it all fell apart - I had no study discipline, because I'd never had to before, and school/classes became impossible overnight.

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I'm glad your school did that. My mom had to fight against my elementary school because they wanted to keep me back a year in kindergarten because I wasn't matu

by dorchadas 5y ago

lowercased 5y ago
FWIW, my folks and some other parents pushed and pushed for 'something' extra... and.. we got little extra 'gifted' exercises (a few thursday afternoons with a doctor talking about anatomy stuff, etc). The principal kept juggling stuff, and before 5th grade started for me, he'd reached some deal to have a more extensive 'gifted program' for the school. Then he died, a month before it was to start. It seemed to fall apart in the aftermath of that. Not because of that, but... we did move - about 10 miles north, and were in a different school area. It was the same county - but there relatively extensive gifted programs, and I was slipped in in my first week there. Same county, just 'richer' (and... it wasn't 'rich' so much as where we'd been living just 10 miles to the south was on the decline). I was bored a lot too, even after being pushed ahead. I was bored until... I was behind. Around grade 11, it all fell apart - I had no study discipline, because I'd never had to before, and school/classes became impossible overnight.