We had our P/T conference today for our second grader. I really like his teacher- she is very organized and nice. Basically, all she told us was that he is at grade level.
I finally told her, well, the book he reads outloud to me is listed at 3.5 grade level and he reads it easily! She smiled. I told her he can easily add and subtract 3-digit numbers and knows some multiplication. She looked like she didn't believe me.
I finally told her that his IQ (on the RIAS IQ test) was clocked at 160, and all she could say was that it was neat how they could test kids in first grade with their IQ!!
My husband pointed out that she has her hands full- there are 31 kids in the class: 10% speak zero english (one girl is from Nepal, another is from Oman and speaks only Arabic!), 10% have serious emotional problems (one is autistic, another has serious ADD and dyslexia; another boy supposedly tried to kill himself in first grade by deliberately trying to run in front of a car).
Sigh...
