I realized what it felt like in that meeting: like I was part of the famous Milgram's study on peer pressure. It makes me frustrated that they never ONCE asked why it was that I suspect that ds is ahead. Not once. Even when I offered that he was comprehending his reading very well at home, they never asked anything about it.
I'm trying not to let it mess with my reality. My ds helped me this morning at the breakfast table. He proclaimed something like this:
"Some numbers are negative, so they are below zero. Zero is kind of like the Equator. The Northern Hemisphere is like the positive numbers and the Southern Hemishere is like the negative. Except, that it's spring in the Southern Hemisphere right now...so I think THEY should be the positive half since temperatures get below zero in winter."
I'm not trying to be a jerk, but isn't that somewhat out of the box and forward thinking for a 6 year old? Wouldn't a teacher be interested in a kid who can stretch, think and make associations like that?
Apparently, they are more concerned that he missed one problem of 'fill in the number on the number line'.
Where's the hoookah?
