Our schools are making changes in curricula right now, and they keep describing it as "rigorous."
Almost none of the words school folks use means what a parent of an unusally gifted kid would tend to think it means:
enrichment
and
challenge-level
and
tested
come to mind.
As in 'I tested her all the way to grade level so I know there is no problem with her reading. So why does she refuse to read our 1st grade primers?'
and
We provide enrichment to all our students, that's why you saw a coloring project in his homework.
and
Gifted children are motivated to work, your child isn't, so they must not be gifted. I provide 'challenge-level' work for the Math students to complete after they finish their assigned worksheets, and I've never seen your son do anything by walk by the challenge work and sniff. He just isn't motivated!
Srry for the vent, but it is mysterious
Grinity
