We just had our conference with DS K teacher and she fascinatingly spent most of the time telling us how awesome he was in his strengths - and she hasn't gotten the half of it!!! We took the don't be a PITA or have such a snowflake he can't fit in approach and waited - and waited to see what she would do with him. She tested their reading levels not until October and then finally reading boxes and reading on their levels were rolled out - this is a gifted school - and now in December she is just now getting books for him supposedly at his level - although she acknowledged he could do more. I think it was better that she came to it on her own especially since we were having such discussions about his writing. But he tends to be quiet, she wants him contributing more. So we could have volunteered more but since she wasn't seeing it I doubt it would have changed anything. We have not asked for more acceleration in math or science because I don't think she is there yet.
But the main take away I got from this board, is that most teachers need to come to it on their own. Its a special someone who is open to this information because the implicit assumption is that it is bragging or parent assisted, IMO
DeHe
