ugh - this is what I'm dreading come May. In NZ whenever you meet a teacher (or DD meets one) and they are everywhere, we get oh I wouldn't worry about her, we are trained in differentiation.

Great can't wait to see what that means. Personally having met a few of my DD's future classmates who vary from not so very diff to her all the way to really might need to attend special school instead - I fail to see how even the most talented of teachers can be expected to meet everyone's needs. I don't nec think it's a teacher problem so much as a system problem.

One little boy who starts the same week as DD has the vocab of my DS2, how can the teacher be expected to cater to my DD when this little boy is soooo far behind?