Thank you everybody for sharing your thoughts with me regarding this. I guess I'm just overly worried after the horrible year we've had with her 1st grade teacher who basically told me my dd didn't seem gifted in comparison to the other kids in her class who will be going into the G&T class. Yet she would openly admit to me she didn't get my dd and couldn't engage her. Dd doesn't play with kids at school and sits by herself at lunch. Even after I requested the teacher move her to the front and center when they sit on the floor and learn (because dd would just turn away from the class and daydream when placed on the edge of the group) she still kept her at the edge of the group and my dd was completely disconnected from the group. I'm guessing it's b/c my dd is a quiet, well-behaved, introvert and doesn't cause problems and doesn't need to follow the lesson to understand what she needs to do so she puts her on the outside b/c she's not a trouble maker.

Dd is also shy, a perfectionist, a slow-processor, and won't answer unless she knows she has the right answer. She won't raise her hand, if called on she would take too long to answer for the teacher's liking, or dd would feel rushed and answer impulsively. Dd was miserably bored in school, math was her main complaint and would cry every morning she had to go to school. I just don't want to go through that again.

Another thing that worries me is that between the 2 first grade classes 7 kids will be going to the 2nd/3rd G&T class next year from our school. The G&T program is district wide and our school houses it for our city. So it's not just for G&T students in our school. So the fact that she is already struggling to fit in with such a high number of G&T students already in her class worries me.

I just want a teacher who will understand my dd and how her brain works. I need a teacher who is patient and will see my dd for who she is and not fit her into some sort of box of what a gifted student should look like... like someone mentioned in a previous post... a teacher that thinks that gifted means high achiever.


Please forgive me if this post seems discombobulated, the kids kept asking me questions as I was typing and it made it hard to organize my thoughts. LOL

Last edited by mountainmom2011; 06/16/13 09:08 AM.