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As fast as your kid wants should be taken into account, but like, if your kid is alienating themselves, maybe take them to a baseball game. If your kid hates ma
by seeknotfind 3y ago
As fast as your kid wants should be taken into account, but like, if your kid is alienating themselves, maybe take them to a baseball game. If your kid hates math, the answer isn't not teaching them at all. :D
Personally, I loved math, would have loved to be accelerated, but I didn't know this was something I could ask for and get.
- mlyle 3y agoA lot of the reason why your kid might be alienating themselves is being thrown into an environment where they're a couple standard deviations outside the mean and have to confront tedious busywork. It's hard for many people to accept, but kids who are a couple sigma above the mean can end up having nearly as much problems in an inflexible academic environment from kids who are a couple sigma below. My eldest is a very high performer who had behavioral issues in upper elementary. A whole lot of getting him to the point where he's maximally successful with peers, in other classrooms, and in sports and other endeavors was getting him into situations with appropriate challenge and opportunities for expression.
- zeroCalories 3y agoYeah I don't always buy it when people advocate for very lax education. I was part of the upperclass-hippie parenting experiment, and in retrospect I suspect it hurt me far more than it helped. Given the choice I would always watch cartoons, play video games, and cheat the system all I could. It clearly works for some kids though.