So when do things start getting a little less "duh"? Am still upset post-assembly - it was book week last week, and so today there were announcements re books voted as best, and prizes for children who voted for them. But the favourite books were all picture books!!! Voted for and won even by children in Grade 7.

Maybe I do still have gifted denial. I've not thought my boys were all that stand-out, especially compared to some of the children talked about here. But apparently one of the key elements of Grade 1 maths this semester will be counting to 100. And despite having gone back and read it several times, I still wonder if it can really be true that a key scientific learning for the END of grade THREE is that offspring resemble their parents - eg "cats have kittens, dogs have puppies." Really and truly. So are my boys really fabulously smart, or does the education system assume that children are idiots? I'm strongly inclined to think there's an element of the latter.