I have a friend whose GT son (Definitely MG, very probably HG+, but probably also somewhere on the light end of the autism spectrum...or something) was reading well, but the teacher wanted to keep him from joining the GT enrichment group because he didn't have all the phonics down.
Mom: "Why does he need the phonics?"
Teacher: "So he can read."
M: "He can't read?"
T: "No, he reads well above grade level."
M: "Uh-huh. So he doesn't need the phonics."
T: "No, he must have mastery of them if he's going to be in the GT group."
M: "So he can read?"
T: "Yes."
She was so fed up with this ridiculous illogic and all the time she had to spend advocating that she finally yanked him and HSd him.
Hard to blame her!!!
