I am so frusterated with my sons daycare. They are not supportive of my son being gifted. They do report cards, even though its daycare and doesn't really count, and give him good scores on all the things he is suppose to know by now. He is actually way past what is on their assessment. When it comes to how he socializes they put down that he needs to start interacting more with his peers there. All he wants to do is hang out with the adults.
They are not understanding about him being gifted and just tell me I should hold him back on learning and force him to do other things. All he wants to do all day is spell words, read books, practice sign language, and count. I try to get him to socialize too but he is not interested. I get the feeling that they want me to believe something is wrong with him. They seem very umcomfortable with how advance he is for a 2 1/2 year old.
I just want to cry. People have so much compassion for children who are on the slower side of learning, but for the accelerated, none at all. I am not saying they should feel sorry for him. I feel blessed that he is gifted, but they could be understanding about the fact that he has different needs.
Actually it seems more that jealousy or envy kick in and they are disgusted by even having to witness gifted abilities. What am I going to do? I looked so hard to find that daycare and thought it was a good match, and now it isn't. So the search begins again.
Last edited by Isaiah09; 07/17/12 09:20 PM.
