Is it possible that the teacher is at odds with whoever has to approve moves/changes etc.
Yes, I think it is partly this - she was put in this teacher's class because this teacher apparently worked with the gt kids at the school the last 2 years so the head of school thought it would be the best placement. Seeing how rigid she is with DD, I can't imagine how she was as a GT specialist teacher.
After a rough Monday morning, complete with DD in tears over not wanting to go to school until it was challenging, we talked with the 1st grade reading teacher about her dislike of school. This teacher was great - she talked to DD rather than to me asking her what it was about school she didn't like and even came up with a plan for DD to help her explain to us what the issues actually are at school, rather than just "its too easy". She gave DD a sticky note pad and told her to write down a little note every time something at school was too easy so we could have a conversation with her regular teacher about what is going on. So, for the last 2 days DD has been actually thinking about what specific things are bothering her and writing them down on these little pieces of paper. We are collecting them, getting some more details about the items on them so that Monday, which is coincidentally parent teacher conference day, we can talk about it with her teacher.
It is very interesting - she couldn't explain the issue when asked, but now that she has been given the idea of trying to remember specific things and writing them down, she is very detailed and specific about it all.
This 1st grade teacher also said she was open to DD going up to her class for math as well as reading, at least on a trial basis to see if that helped also. (We'll bring this up on Monday too.)
