We had a teacher like this last year, and she had DD7 so upset by halfway through the school year that we ended up changing schools from private to public for 2nd grade. There are some teachers who are not equipped to handle very bright kids, for whatever reason. This hag had my poor daughter thinking she was bad at math and at spelling, when all it was was that DD wasn't doing the teacher's way. ARGH!!
We had to do a lot of showing DD at home that she COULD do the work, that she wasn't dumb, etc. We even had her in counseling with a school psychologist from the next county, and that helped a lot. Now she has a great teacher who really understands gifted kids, and that has made all of the difference in the world.
Is there a gifted resource at DS's school, or someone else with whom you can discuss this? Or maybe you can talk to the school psychologist yourself? It seems odd that a kid would go down to an F without the teacher having you in for a conference part-way through the grading period.
