Some may state that gifted kids benefit from a requirement that they use their school day tutoring other students rather than learning new material, concepts, and ideas themselves. However many parents of gifted children believe that children who may have already mastered the grade-level standards in a given subject ought to spend their school day learning something new and challenging, rather than being required to tutor others (effectively being treated as free labor, or slaves, doing the work which teachers are paid to do).
This is absolutely my pet hate. DS spent many very frustrating years infuriated by kids who didn't get what he'd already mastered. He's very sarcastic and not at all nurturing so I can't imagine he was doing those kids any good. And now DD has the job of testing the bottom-level kids on their spelling. I really don't get it, apart from freeing up the teacher from the job. It's not benefitting DD in any way, and surely it's just highlighting for the other kid how far behind they are? I hate it
did I mention?
