Well, I’m sorry but this story is very familiar. The promise that things would get more challenging every year, and every year being disappointed. DD actually came home crying one year after the first day of math- she was surrounded by the same kids ‘who don’t get it’ and whom she spent the previous year helping every day in class...
I know. I read so many posts like mine. It's just sometimes good to have some place to share. I do not talk about it with fellow parents or even my sibling because it is taken the wrong way (parent bragging).
At times I guess we felt proud (or more like you, happy that one thing in their lives is easy) but never of the basic classwork stuff- mainly because our kids were not proud in the least- they knew they did ‘nothing’ to earn the high grades or the subsequent awards, etc, so they actually felt some embarrassment, and in my DS’s case, shame.
DD is not embarrassed, but she is very aware of how she doesn't need to try. She once flippantly stated she didn't need to edit because she knew she would do just fine.
