Part of my initial problem was that when all the testing was done the results given to me compared my daughter to expectations for grades a year and two ahead of her age, where she was placed for school. Now I can understand how she tests against someone her own age. Thanks Dottie! Yes, it was a very big relief, instead of a grade or two behind, she's "normal" when it comes to writing.
Happy to be part of the solution, Melmich!
I want to point out the damage that ND teachers and systems set up for ND kids do to young gifties.
A) they don't teach you
B) they almost force the child to internalize the idea that they are flawed in some way
C) We carry this idea that we are flawed into our interactions with our own children.
Melmich?
How old were you when you started writing this way?
Did you already know how to touchtype?
How did you feel about yourself as a writer in 5th grade? 7th grade? 11th grade? Beyond?
You're daughter may be one of those kids who can make use of the ND way of teaching writing: brainstorm/organize/draft/copy edit, or she may not. It wasn't that you didn't know those steps, it was that you felt
wrong because you could never see the point of those steps, yes? It was that you had deep mixed feelings about the ND 'teach you to write' path, yes?
I think that this experience points out one of the key importances of this board. You had an old 'hot button' from your own school experiences. The school told you that your daughter was 'bad' at writing. You accepted what they said at face value. When you posted here, we had other perspectives on the whole issue, because our 'hot buttons' are in other areas. You quickly 'woke up' and adopted perspectives that were better suited to moving things forward. Wow! What a marvelous transformation! What a lucky chance that you are here and had the courage to post! Yippee!
Love and More Love,
Grinity
