Thanks Jamie,
The "certainly not" was actually a response to performance on a school test. I get that the test score said what it said (this wasn't a test to determine giftedness, it was a grade level test that I thought he had done better on than he did), but I just find those words to be so...I don't know...condescending?
I did immediately email the teacher to try and repair the situation, but I'm not likely to hear anything over the weekend, so I'm sitting here stewing and worrying.
As a teacher, it came to a shock to me to experience school as a parent. While I had always had a lot of positive feedback from parents of students, I had assumed that the way I work with students and families was pretty typical. It's distressing to discover that it is less typical than I thought
Thanks for the sympathetic ear--just being able to talk about it beyond DH helps me regain a sense of proportion.
