From an email from his teacher:
"Our math workshop block is differentiated throughout center time- meaning Yourkid can make it as challenging as he wants. Many of the activities are open-ended where he is encouraged to use his own numbers in the problems to make them as advanced as he would like."
I guess this is why he wrote 100,000,000+100,000,000=200,000,000 on a doubles worksheet?
Oh, boy, does this sound familiar. It's code for "we're delegating our responsibility for providing an appropriate education level from ourselves to your child." And as anyone who has ever received basic leadership training can tell you, responsibility cannot be delegated... ESPECIALLY to a small child.
I had a lovely rant on this topic not long ago:
http://giftedissues.davidsongifted...._attempting_to_transfer_.html#Post129509
