Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Parenting and Advocacy AAAUGH! Teacher driving me batty!

Breast development?!?!?! Wow. Wrong on so many levels. And I thought MY child's teachers had some crazy ideas . . .

So the only kids who can be grade-skipped are the ones with early developing breasts? That would certainly do something to alleviate the social anxieties of the late bloomers, I suppose. Let's not organize school according to brains, because breasts are a better method. Isn't that discriminatory against boys?

Wow. I thought the "He isn't paying attention in class" argument was bad. Suddenly I feel like the situation at my son's school is downright manageable.
Set up a meeting with the principal, teacher, teacher's assistant, and AIG teacher to discuss this matter. Is there anyone else I should include?

My poor dd10.... She is so tiny she gets confused with 5 year olds until she talks....we fear that she will be in a booster seat to drive...if Breast Development is the measure of educational maturity...my baby is in BIG TROUBLE!!

That sounds fine. Good for you for calling a meeting. Can you bring a 'friend in a suit' to witness any public snark? Be prepared to take notes, and stock up on chocolate and videos.

Love and more Love,
Grinity

OK, I really have tried my best to resist a snide remark but I can't....

Here goes...

If grade acceleration and intellectual maturity were based on breast development....

I would still be in 3rd grade.

Along with most of the males I know

polarbear, back to hopefully being helpful now!

I'm so glad for this thread. I now understand that the blocked searches I found this morning on my almost-teenage son's computer were not his blooming curiosity about the opposite gender but was instead his quest to find really, really smart girls.

Ok, seriously, dumbest argument yet.

I just looove the comments, ladies, they are great.

I'm curious about the woman with the underachieving high-school student? Male or female? Reason for underachievement being that he/she has been incorrectly placed based on physical development?

Anyway Michelle6 good luck. In the past, I've chewed a huge wad of gum for about 10-15 minutes before I got to a school meeting I was nervous about. Get rid of it before the meeting, of course.

Male.

And, quite likely. As a gifted male myself, I'll be the first to admit that we have a different set of challenges. There is a decidedly physical element to our socialization patterns.

Plus, this locale is noted for widespread red-shirting.

I guess no one worries about early breast or facial hair development among red-shirted kids.