i heard the "evening out" thing a lot last year from people who were trying SO HARD to pretend i was hothousing DD5.
at the time, i took this completely personally, but i'm starting to realize that they'd probably just never met anyone like DD before, so they honestly didn't know any better. the school's incoming Pre-K classes are typically around 15 kids - and no matter how many years of experience those teachers had behind them, it's pretty unlikely they'd have ever actually met a kid like DD - let alone someone like HK's wunderkind.
i'd also argue that "evening out" is performed pretty efficiently by a bad school environment - we nearly lost DD last year that way and it's taken her all summer to claw her way back to her usual sparky self. now that she's finally got an appropriate learning environment, it feels like she's got her foot on the accelerator.
Last edited by doubtfulguest; 09/12/13 03:02 PM.
